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Also a musician, composer, entrepreneur, retired lawyer and philanthropist, John Lefebvre of Saltspring Island is a former director of the David Suzuki Foundation, a founding director of the David Suzuki Institute and a founding supporter of The Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education. Having co-founded DeSmog Blog, he self-published his autobiography, All's Well: Where Thou Art Earth and Why as a platform for his philosophical musings and DIY wisdom. "150 generations out of the caves, we think we know our place in the vastness of the cosmos. Only 100 years ago we hardly knew that our Sun is just another star. Today, we still believe we're the most intelligent beings to exist. Yet simple arithmetic suggests there are at least 10 trillion thoughtful species elsewhere. We're not alone in the universe, just lonely: when we sufficiently mature, others may be in touch." With liberties come responsibilities.
With Kerry Gold, Lefebvre published Good with Money: A Rich Guy's Guide to Gaining Everything by Losing it All. A Memoir (Figure 1 2020). It describes how Lefebvre jumped on board a dot-com start-up as a founder of Neteller, an online payment company during the late nineties. As Neteller's fortunes rose along with those of the online gambling industry, the pay-off for Lefebvre and his partners would be astronomical. But it didn't come without a price. The story tells what happens when a pot-smoking lawyer who only wanted to play music ends up as one of the lucky winners in the Internet boom. From Lefebvre's early years as a teenage slacker in Calgary to his arrest by the FBI at his mansion in Malibu, to the many unusual ways Lefebvre has spent or given away almost all of his fortune, his memoir gives insight into the blessings and perils of sudden wealth while posing the big question: what does it really mean to be good with money?
BOOKS
Good with Money: A Rich Guy's Guide to Gaining Everything by Losing it All. A Memoir (Figure 1 2020) $28 978-1-77327-129-3
All's Well: Where Thou Art Earth and Why (self-published 2017) $24.95 978-0-9959042-3-1
[BCBW 2020]
With Kerry Gold, Lefebvre published Good with Money: A Rich Guy's Guide to Gaining Everything by Losing it All. A Memoir (Figure 1 2020). It describes how Lefebvre jumped on board a dot-com start-up as a founder of Neteller, an online payment company during the late nineties. As Neteller's fortunes rose along with those of the online gambling industry, the pay-off for Lefebvre and his partners would be astronomical. But it didn't come without a price. The story tells what happens when a pot-smoking lawyer who only wanted to play music ends up as one of the lucky winners in the Internet boom. From Lefebvre's early years as a teenage slacker in Calgary to his arrest by the FBI at his mansion in Malibu, to the many unusual ways Lefebvre has spent or given away almost all of his fortune, his memoir gives insight into the blessings and perils of sudden wealth while posing the big question: what does it really mean to be good with money?
BOOKS
Good with Money: A Rich Guy's Guide to Gaining Everything by Losing it All. A Memoir (Figure 1 2020) $28 978-1-77327-129-3
All's Well: Where Thou Art Earth and Why (self-published 2017) $24.95 978-0-9959042-3-1
[BCBW 2020]
