But in my case, I was working for a friend at a small start-up.

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Yesterday, I was talking to a friend of mine who had worked at Lehman Brothers for almost 13 years, and she said to me that her 401k had dropped by 75 percent in value, her retirement fund, and she's in her early 50s.

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When I was around that age my best friend at the time and I dreamed of building a theatre on a piece of land in California, and we were going to call it the Trigger Street theatre, which now happens to be the name of my production company.

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My first experience, and what started my interest in the subject, came at infant school when I sat next to a good friend of mine who was left handed.

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Disclosure about Thiel: He was briefly, in 1989, an intern at Upside magazine, which I had co-founded with a friend the year before.

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At approximately 11 o'clock as I was getting ready to take my friend home I heard what sounded like a large lorry pull right up outside my home, or possibly a low flying aircraft.

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