Ferrari Mailing List: Boxster for Prius, instead of . . .

[Dennis Liu (BigHeadDennis]

A blurb from a NY Times article today on envy in Silicon Valley, that I
thought would be quite amusing to this group....

Vty,

--Dennis

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/technology/21envy.html

James Hong, a co-founder of Hotornot.com, a dating site, found that his
$55,000 Porsche Boxster had come to symbolize the trap he often saw others
in Silicon Valley fall into. Mr. Hong, 33, says Hotornot's success allowed
him "a very comfortable life without ever needing to get a job - freedom
money, as they call it." But he nonetheless saw himself succumbing to the
envy malaise. 

After all, his best friend, Max Levchin, was a founder of PayPal and has a
net worth probably in the tens of millions.

So in a conspicuous move to get out of the game, Mr. Hong has decided to
sell his sports car and has bought a Toyota Prius.

"I don't want to live the life of a Boxster, because when you get a Boxster
you wish you had a 911," he said, referring to a much more expensive
Porsche. "And you know what people who have 911s wish they had? They wish
they had a Ferrari."