$10million from $10k. How would you do it?

100 million from 10k. How would you do it?

Start a RE Fund? VC? other? If you could go back to your 20s and take a direct path, how would it be done?

I know this is vague, but I am curious how some of you vets would change how you did it, or how you already did it?

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Is $10k enough to start a RE fund? If you started a VC fund you'd have to raise significantly more obviously, and the $10k might not even cover startup legal fees for either.

Turning $10k into a fortune is done by people starting their own something. If the hypothetical is literally turning $10k into something more you need to think about it in terms of, "How do I turn this $10k into $15k? How do I turn that into $20k? That into $40k? And so on. Vague - I know. But an inch a day turns into miles over time.

"Out the garage is how you end up in charge It's how you end up in penthouses, end up in cars, it's how you Start off a curb servin', end up a boss"
 

To get more specific: Do you think starting your career with a trajectory of being able to manage your own fund in VC or RE is the best case?

 

There's a million ways to skin a cat. If you want a career in RE/VC then pursue that, you can definitely make millions. But as M1 said you don't make that kind of $ working for someone else.

"Out the garage is how you end up in charge It's how you end up in penthouses, end up in cars, it's how you Start off a curb servin', end up a boss"
 

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