How It Feels When Your Friends Get Rich

Burying jealousy in Silicon Valley

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We’re driving along a sun-dappled street in the hills when a friend — let’s call him Niraj — tells me that he’s going to be rich. He doesn’t say it like that, exactly. He mentions the valuation of individual shares in a company he was involved in and then states a sum. The number sails over my head. I’m too busy looking out the window…