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Where to make rich friends? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by king_chain_mail@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I'm starting to realize that to get rich, one needs to hang out with rich people but I'm not sure where to meet them. The only places I can think of are Silicon Valley and New York (no I don't know where in New York they are).

Why have rich friends?

If they didn't make the money themselves, they at least know people who did can learn from them
They're the ideal customer because they can pay more for the same product

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[–] FriscoFrank98@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I made a lot of rich friends hanging out around my local VC. But I didn’t know they were rich when I met them. I just was really into my startup and met them at meetups / events the VC hosted. Started getting invited to places I hadn’t heard of (not like SUUUUPER nice but like nicer bars and restaurants I wouldn’t have known as a poor recent college grad). I then realized they had a lot more money than me.

I think it’s true, the 5 people you surround yourself with the most you become. I’ve also read it’s true that an average salary of like your top 5 friends is your own because people hangout with people they can afford to hangout with.

Idk, I feel like I’ve learned a lot hanging around successful people / people that manage money well but I didn’t go in with that mindset. I did go in with the mindset I wanted to meet more cofounders doing their own thing because I was getting lonely working by myself at coffee shops and wanted people to cowork with. A few of them just happened to have had previous startups and were very successful.