His Mom knew the chairman of IBM.
That's a connection no normal person will ever have. Steve Jobs and Steve Woz actually had to start from a middle class.
Comparison is the theft of joy, I haven't been evicted since I got my first apartment at 19 and with any luck I'll retire early. That's enough for me. I'm widely more success than I could of imagined.
Yes someone else is making a million a month, has a beautiful partner and a family.
Someone else just got out of prison and is struggling to stay in housing.
I will never know why the rich ( north of 10 million in the US) feel a need to keep working though. Start a band, travel, etc.
Why deal with VCs breathing down your neck.
Then again, if I woke up rich I'd probably start a game studio as a passion project.
I'd want to release all the code open source. I want the popular games of the future to at a minimum be open core.