0 - Eight Figures in 10 Years?

Repost of another discussion with corrections***

Just a fun discussion topic sort of inspired by all the anti-banking/PE soul searching going on on this forum recently lol. 

If you could start now, and wanted to go from $0 to $10M plus net worth in, let's say, 5-10 years, how would you try and do it?

Bonus points if you aim higher than 10 million (just prepare for the roasting in your replies).

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Pretty much no salaried job will give you this no matter where you go (ie. PE, HF whatever). Only way this could happen is a successful entrepreneurial situation or a successful exit from such. At least in the timeframe you described. There absolutely may be anomalies but those are very, very far and few between. 

 

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