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That would involve a whole lot of making stuff up, since valuations for privately held tech companies dominate my net worth at for the last ~8 years. They only time you know know what they're worth is when they are sold.

The liabilities side of the balance sheet is less complicated: I owed $22k in student loans at graduation, paid that off, incurred a fair bit of debt back in ~2013 (raided the 2012 tax fund to pay for my wedding and then 2013 ended up being radically less lucrative than expected), and anticipate paying it off this year.



At the end of the day, I have to believe you mentally calculate this net worth line (say, with a conservative 1x ARR on the investments) if you're to the point of talking to accountants about becoming an accredited investor.

Although props if you are conservative enough not to even entertain the thought of counting unhatched chickens. That's responsible, disciplined behavior. The kind that gives you the confidence to go launch Starfighter...




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