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I’ve been fortunate to meet people from right across the wealth spectrum. I had a friend who spent a significant period of his life living in a van, for…

Hey ,
Thom here — co-founder of Navexa.
In 2024, I wrote 37 essays for a project we called The Benchmark.
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Thom
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