A billionaire’s Batmobile regret is just a minor setback
The man who bought the Batmobile now wishes he’d kept it.
The story
Anthony Scaramucci bought a Batmobile for $140k in 2003 and sold it for $350k three years later, missing out on an estimated $5-7 million in potential value.
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Our reading
Scaramucci bought the Batmobile for $140,000, then sold it for $350,000—enough to make a normal person rich, but not enough to make a billionaire rich. He’s now lamenting that he could have had seven million, which is like having a spare bedroom full of cash but not the kind that actually matters.
It’s not that he didn’t know the Batmobile was valuable—it’s just that he didn’t know it was that valuable. He had the right idea, but not the right patience. Like buying a rare coin and then selling it before it becomes a rare coin.
Now he’s the guy who had the Batmobile but not the Bat-wealth, which is the kind of story that makes people wonder if the real treasure was never the car, but the lesson in timing.
