How to be a deca-millionaire by 25.

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Mar 13 33 Comments

1. Go to Stanford and major on Symbolic Systems, or perhaps CS with an unorthodox secondary major.
2. Be a freshman APM intern at FANG or similar.
3. Start a startup in your Junior year.
4. Join a famous VC as an associate. Invest your money back into the fund every year.
5. Become a principal or maybe even partner at 23.
6. ...
7. Sit tight and wait for your first investment to exit as a unicorn.

If you thought your career sucked before...well, it may as well not exist. You should have stayed home and been a shopkeeper or something.

Grapes so sour they could be used as battery acid.

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  • Meta
    lewishammy

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    lewishammy
    Too many steps. Just find the next pre ipo unicorn and then profit. My friend joined Asana as a new grad a few years back and became a multi millionaire at 21…imagine if he came in as a senior eng+.
    Mar 13 11
    • Bolt
      loveleetc

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      loveleetc
      This is bad advice. For every pre ipo people join early that succeeds, there's 100s that fail. And if you only join late when success is much more likely, chances are your returns are not going to be great since the upside would be very limited at that point. Ex. no one that joins Stripe, Bolt, Instacart etc. today is likely to become a millionaire.

      You can't make millions that fast without getting insanely lucky, it has little to do with good decision making. It's easy to get lucky and then look like a genius for joining Asana, Snowflake etc. early. But had they failed like 99% of startups, you'd look like a moron and wonder why you didn't join established companies.
      Mar 14
    • Yelp
      twnhome

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      twnhome
      Is he still a multimillionaire after the recent Asana stock drop?
      Mar 16
  • Google
    LongGoogle

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    LongGoogle
    Lmfaoo… you got jokes
    Mar 13 0
  • Google
    pizzoo

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    pizzoo
    Is this supposed to be funny? Or is there some context I’m missing
    Mar 13 2
    • Lyft
      JgZXHEmVc7

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      OP
      The above is a recurring pattern I keep seeing among mid-20s or so VC associates and principals.
      Mar 14
    • Google
      pizzoo

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      pizzoo
      Very few mid 20s VCs are that rich, but hm seems kinda accurate I know a small number of these folks. Mostly at smaller funds, but making a killing.

      You’re right lol pretty funny / messed up. Bunch of 🐍 from Wharton
      Mar 14
  • True, but I failed the first step
    Mar 13 1
  • Meta
    metafaces

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    metafaces
    You have to be both very privileged and very lucky for this to work
    Mar 13 0