* I rented out a warehouse, filled it up with 1/2 dozen hackers and musicians, built some bedrooms, a stage, a sound system, a recording booth, a server closet, got a fractional T3 installed, and threw bi parties which covered 60-70% of our rent, essentially lived rent free for three years.
* Built an application hosting & management firm with 4 employees and $1m+/year of gross-revenue, sold my half of it earlier this year
* Worked as the only production sysadmin at Napster before the $100m investment, left shortly afterwards.
* Once bought Joey Ramone a beer at CBGBs and spent an evening talking with him, a year or so before he died.