You probably got to this page by searching something like “Matt Paulson Net Worth.”

Maybe you’re curious to know, “How much money does Matt Paulson really have?”

Well, it’s enough that people are Googling the question to find out.

The truth is, most wealthy people don’t know how much they are worth, because most of their investments are in illiquid assets such as privately-held businesses.

Is MarketBeat worth 2X or 10X EBIDTA? There’s no way to know unless I sell the company, which I don’t plan on doing.

How much are all of my angel investments worth today? I also have no idea there, because you often don’t get information rights when making small investments in startups.

How much is my real estate worth today?  I have a decent guess, but again, we wouldn’t know what it’s really worth until we tried to sell it.

I guess the moral of the story is that you should never trust celebrity net worth sites, because it’s hard for wealthy people to know the current value of all of their investments.