Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Five years ago I made the scariest decision of my life. Here's the full story.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS
00:27 – Six figures and still unhappy
03:09 – The day I quit
10:45 – The Bloomberg article
17:15 – Starting over from scratch
19:42 – Five years later

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