Story
George Clooney handed 14 friends a suitcase with $1M each
Shaan relays the (admittedly unverified) story that George Clooney invited 14 old friends who'd supported him to dinner and gave each a Tumi suitcase stuffed with $1 million in cash, telling them not to worry about mortgages or their kids' schooling.
“he invites them all to a dinner and he brings 14 briefcases or like suitcases, a Tumi suitcase, actually. Each one was filled with $1 million in cash. And he invited them over for dinner, and then he gave each of them the suitcase, and they each just got $1 million from him.”
Take
'Die With Zero' and giving while you're alive
Riffing on the book Die With Zero and the Clooney story, Shaan argues you should execute your giving plan now rather than at death, because impact today is worth far more than impact 45 years from now when both you and your friends are old. His mantra: 'when I eat, we all eat.'
“Because why wait 40 years and let them have more discomfort or suffering along the way when you could— if you're trying to give to make an impact, impact today is worth a lot more than impact 45 years from now. And so I'm a big believer in this. I hadn't really thought about it till I heard this George Clooney story, but when I heard it, I was like, oh, and you know, my friends, if I invite you to a dinner in a cabin and I show up with 14 suitcases, like, you know what's happening”
Steal thisBuild and execute a giving plan now instead of waiting for a will; front-load impact while it still changes lives.