[Founder Notes] Marc Rich

Left his company because of a money gap. Worked hard — so hard he told his wife she could only get two time slots a week. That's the kind of obsession that builds empires and destroys families. He learned this the hard way.

The ideal is to create a market. Provide a service. If you know something that no one else does, you can profit from it by turning it into a service.

That's the clean lesson. The messy one is that all the wealth in the world doesn't make up for burning the relationships that matter most.

— Jay