{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Extreme Wealth \u2013 Episode 3: Jennifer Risher and the Limits of Sudden Wealth","description":"The author and philanthropist Jennifer Risher continues our series on extreme wealth by telling the story of her ear-popping rise from a middle-class Microsoft employee in the early \u201890s to an unexpected multimillionaire. The stock options she accrued with her husband, David \u2014 a fellow Microsoft employee who went on to join Amazon and who is now the CEO of Lyft \u2014 gave Jennifer immediate entry to a world of privilege that, as the child of a working-class household, she\u2019d never expected to join. Her experience showed her the peculiar nature of personal wealth: an agent of tremendous power that, she finds, does more to amplify people\u2019s character than to alter it. Jennifer Risher is the author of \u201cWe Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth,\u201d which aims to illuminate discussions of money that are often cloaked in taboo, guilt, and secrecy. She and her husband founded the #HalfMyDAF movement, which seeks to encourage wealthy people to make greater charitable gifts in their lifetimes. ","author_name":"Bribe, Swindle or Steal","author_url":"http:\/\/bribeswindleorsteal.libsyn.com\/website","html":"