TORTOISES AND HARES

It took Dean Stoecker 22 years after founding Alteryx to hit a personal net worth of $1 billion. Is slow and steady the way to go? From 2011:

“In July 1999, Jay Walker set a record by passing $1 billion in net worth within one year of founding Priceline. He broke a mark set a year earlier by Global Crossing’s Gary Winnick. Neither man is on The Forbes 400 today. That’s a good reminder for the speedsters of our time, Groupon’s Eric Lefkofsky and the Facebook mafia, to set some cash aside.”