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Vesper kirjoitti:Ainoa mainittava ja mieleeni jäänyt kerta on se, kun miesystäväni petti minua pitkään erään varatun naisen kanssa. Kielsi aina kaiken ja keksi tekosyitä. Kun lopulta sain selvitettyä (erinäisin arveluttavin keinoin) myös tämän pettäjämimmin aviomiehen yhteystiedot, pyörittelin parikin viikkoa ajatuksissani ajatusta heidän parisuhteensa tuhoamisesta. Sitten nousin asian yläpuolelle ja jätin asian karman käsiin. Se kun aina hoitaa hommansa...

NuoriD kirjoitti:No mikset tehnyt noin?

exPertti kirjoitti:Voisin kertoa koko jutun niin ymmärtäisit tämän, mutta en ole pitänyt tapana kertoa ihan kaikkea.

Lilo kirjoitti:
Myöhemmin pelkkä TUPLAviskin tarjoaminen riitti punastuttamaan pojan ja hän vaikutti muutenkin kovin kiusaantuneelta ollessaan meidän molempien seurassa.

JoeB kirjoitti:Kuten sanottua anteeksi en anna, unohtaa voin.

Vesper kirjoitti:

JoeB kirjoitti:Kuten sanottua anteeksi en anna, unohtaa voin.

Mulla tää menee juuri toisin päin, eli voin antaa anteeksi, mutta harvoin unohdan...

Sigmund Fuller kirjoitti:Linus was the first "grown up" partner in BF's startup. BF had been screwed time after time looking for funding for his great idea. He was working several jobs to keep his startup team eating, but they were all packed into a single rent-controlled apartment (illegally borrowed from another friend), and reduced to obtaining free bread and cheese from the food bank and stealing condiments from the local Burger King.

Linus helped BF raise money in a professional manner. He was a successful investor and fund manager himself, and was married into the circles of power. Linus never managed the startup closely, preferring to stay arms length managing his other projects and letting the startup team manage itself. But his impact was undeniably huge.

BF and Linus became close, almost of one mind, and as the startup grew they became good friends despite the decade age difference. But even as the startup prospered, Linus' personal life floundered. He went through a divorce with an ugly court battle over the considerable assets. BF tried to support Linus, but Linus had done some very regrettable and stupid things. So the courts were not favorably inclined to him. Linus was left with little of the shared assets and, worse, most all his investors, mostly friends of his wife's, pulled out of his fund. It was shuttered and lawsuits flew fast and furious.

Meanwhile the startup was doing very well, with all of its business from overseas customers. With the first profits the early investors were bought out at a tidy markup, and the startup became a private foreign partnership. Everybody involved in the startup was happy.

Eventually the startup would earn in excess of $100 million of foreign income. The original partners gave up day to day management, retired, and started other projects.

Linus was despondent, and his equity in the startup was limited. But because of his impact on the company, BF and his partners agreed to create a partnership investment fund for Linus to manage. He moved overseas to manage the fund.

A decade passed. By all metrics Linus did a very competent job, growing the account and making substantial carry and management fees, almost certainly more than he would have made at his old fund. Everybody was happy with the arrangement.

Meanwhile, BF and his partners were doing well at other endeavors. Their financial needs were more than met. So at a board meeting of the fund, BF and his partners decided to pull out a little of the money to cover their personal needs, and donate the rest to charity. BF was donating 90% of his account, the others between 30% and 75%. They voted to create a foundation and trust, and have Linus co-manage it with an executive director recruited from a major foundation.

Six months passed. The plan was moving along slowly; there wasn't any particular hurry, after all.

But one day, Linus wasn't answering his phone. His weekly spritely and joke-laden report was late. After a few days Linus was still missing. The foreign country wasn't perfectly safe, and the sums of money were vast, so you can imagine BF's state of mind. He was concerned about his friend. He had the locals investigate, and contracted an international agency to assist with private manpower and investigators.

Perhaps more cynical people can see what happened next. Certainly BF and his friends never would have imagined it.

The money was gone.

The money in the fund was large enough and tempting enough to break a nearly fifteen year friendship. To break obligations. To break trust.

It also turned out the money was enough to bribe bankers, government officials and police, to hire mercenary assistance, to establish a haven, and to launder the cash.

EveryWoman kirjoitti:Okei, koska kostonhimoa ei oikein tunnu löytyvän, niin asetetaan kysymys toisin: jos olisit linkin takana kuvatussa tilanteessa, kostaisitko? Miten, ja jos et, niin mitä tekisit?

Sigmund Fuller kirjoitti:Linus was the first "grown up"...