The future is always uncertain. So flexibility is key. One really interesting example here was I was talking with a member who was very successful very early in his career. So at age 24, had a huge exit, a ton of money. And he said, I want to really get this right.
This is a life changing sum of money. But so he ended up buying 80,000 acres of farmland and putting it into this farmland trust. And I was talking to him now, he's like, okay, I did that at 24. So now, you know, 20 years later, I've got a four year old kid, you know, the first person to take money out of that is his kid.
So you know, we're looking at another, you know, 25 years before even a beneficiary. So he says, you know, I'm growing, you know, coffee in Hawaii, I'm growing oranges in Florida, I've got corn in Iowa, but I'm still driving my Camry because I can't touch that money. So this idea of saying, hey, you know, there's a mathematically right answer and a tax code, optimally efficient answer.
And I asked if we could share this anecdote. He said, Yeah, I want everybody to be aware of sort of how this stuff works. But thinking about the flexibility of, you know, giving yourself some options in case you want to go a different direction in the future.