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Comment by elevatedastalt | Hacker News Reader

> One big piece of advice I have is to try to avoid letting others in your social network know exactly how successful you’ve been.

The time to do that was _before_ writing a blog post titled "I am rich" and submitting it to HN

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They already know who he is, he was a public figure executive that sold his company, everyone in his social circle would know what Loom was and would read in the news how much it sold for.

Well, you can make new friends. I have no idea what actual name is behind vinay.sh :?

The domain name is consistent with the name of one of the founders of the mentioned startup, Loom.

If you're running a popular company then people will easily have a good understanding of the ballpark of your net worth anyway

I'm not so sure. You can run it with 90% equity, or 10% equity.

in this case (given it was reportedly sold for $975m cash), that would mean your friends think you either have $877m or $97m (he reportedly net $60m, which means your most pessimistic friend thinks you have more money than you actually have?)

Yes, Loom is also mentioned by the author of the blog post.

How many new friends would look up what Loom was, though? This blog post was the first time I heard of it, so seems very unlikely that a random person would really care.

I learned about Loom from a pirate on Monkey Island who asked me to ask him about it.

If the long-term CTO was your friend, you think you wouldn't hear about it? I generally have some idea about what my friends do professionally.

The about page links to his Twitter which shows the full name.

Funnily enough, the link is to a tweet describing how he wired all his money to his parents.

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