Being perceived as wealthy, successful, or high-status was personally important to overcoming childhood experiences of poverty; this secondary attachment to external success kept Colonna driven for decades after material needs were met.
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Jerry ColonnaEvidence Quote
“it was really important to me to be perceived as as a financial wizard as a really successful VC it was really important because it overcame Decades of a sense of poverty that I grew up with I had to be willing to be poor in order to be free”
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