Discussion of Firms and Life in SF/SV

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

(1) "I’m in the wine business (East Coast)" = "I buy cases and sell bottles." "I’m in the wine business (West Coast)" = "I buy harvests and sell grapes" or "I buy grapes and sell cases."

(2) I’d love to be a gentleman farmer. But these days to get there you have to pay your dues. Napa and Sonoma are lousy with law practice money; unless MR has serious bank, there’s no room at that baccarat table anymore.

(3) You know a good way to make a small fortune in the wine game? Start with a large one.

It’s probably a good gig if he can get it, but can he get it?

MR, after you and your SO pick up that Vineyard, remember, I'm the one who believed in you, I'm the one who didn't think you'd end up in some dead-end urban law firm sucking up to the plushbottoms to eke out a lousy few hundred grand a year.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

MR, after you and your SO pick up that Vineyard, remember, I'm the one who believed in you, I'm the one who didn't think you'd end up in some dead-end urban law firm sucking up to the plushbottoms to eke out a lousy few hundred grand a year.

This is what I do. But I'm also in the wine business, as a consumer. No rain in California this year? BFD -- in a couple of years I'll drink French or Italian wine instead. Euro gets too high? I'll go back to Cali wine.

My point: Actually producing anything is overrated.