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Bill Harris discusses his journey from co-founding PayPal with Elon Musk to managing a $100 million net worth while living frugally.

We're still surprised people did this but... 50+ founders worth $10M to $4B reveal their personal finances. Here it is: https://joinhampton.com/mw-wr Why do we do this? Because if you're an aspirational person or someone who runs a business and is making money, it's incredibly challenging to figure out what to do. Information is impossible to find — and that's what we put together: the net worth reveal and why we do this podcast, Moneywise. He co-founded PayPal with Elon Musk, sold Personal Capital for nearly $1B — and spends $70K a year. Bill Harris has a résumé that barely fits on one page. He was CEO of Intuit, founding CEO of PayPal — in the room with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Max Levchin above a bakery near Stanford — and then founded Personal Capital, which he grew to $23 billion in AUM before selling it to Empower Retirement for close to $1 billion. He's done something like that 11 times. Today his net worth is around $100 million, he's 70 years old, and he spends less than $100,000 a year. He sold his houses, cars, airplane, and 31 pets (including two mountain goats and an iguana) and moved into a small cottage near Miami Beach where he bikes to work every day. This…

People in this episode

Host: Hampton

Guest: Bill Harris

Topics covered

• personal finance
• entrepreneurship
• wealth management
• PayPal origin story
• founder experiences

Keywords

• Bill Harris
• PayPal
• Personal Capital
• net worth
• frugal living
• entrepreneurship
• wealth management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PayPal, Personal Capital, Intuit, Empower Retirement

Places: Miami Beach, Stanford

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