Graham Stephan

So from twenty four thousand dollars a month to 12.

Well, again, so again, I was 30 years old at the time, so it was probably eight to four, something like that.

Our friends did not know what was going on.

That's the most thing.

That's what it is, right?

Again, I was in Silicon Valley and a sales guy and people would drop crazy money on belts and shoes and new cars and lease payments and keeping up with the Joneses.

We were just not participating.

We were made fun of, I'm sure, right?

Because again, we had, you know, at the time, eight or nine year old cars.

I know we were made fun of at our silly little 1,300-square-foot condo because we could have easily upgraded three or four times.

So, yeah, we had to change our network because we just refused to participate in the culture of consumerism.

I know hundreds, if not thousands of people in the Silicon Valley.

And I mean, a salary at Facebook is 386 grand.

386 grand is the average salary at Facebook.

And most of them are living paycheck to paycheck because they do dumb shit with money.

This is crazy.

It's wild.

Now, some of that's because it's expensive to live there.

And again, both parents work, so their kid's in daycare, right?

So there's some of that real life stuff.