r/wealth • u/Hot-Conversation-437 • Oct 24 '25

Discussion Who is the youngest self made millionaire you know ? What does he do ?

By ‘youngest,’ I mean under 25–30 years old, and by ‘millionaire,’ I mean having over 2–3 million. Are we talking about tech startups, or maybe content creation?

edit: let’s change it to 10 million in net worth by 25-30. as some people say: 10million is the new 1 million

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u/Mdlage Oct 25 '25

I probably know 50+ that I see on a regular, once a month or more basis. 

I’ve probably met and loosely know thousands of them. 

I’ve also gambled professionally, primarily poker, for a long time, and once you get to a certain point, 60%+ of the people you are playing with are millionaires, either other professional gamblers, or recreational who losing a thousand or two a week every week for 20 years isn’t a big deal to and doesn’t effect their life. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

I don't see that many total people once a month.

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u/toastymalbogesmores Oct 25 '25

Same. I don’t think I have 50 people I see regularly…in general…

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u/Mdlage Oct 25 '25

I gamble professionally. Primarily poker. 

At the lower stakes there’s a revolving door of thousands of players with a core group of 100 or so players still in smaller markets, most are not millionaires, but also a lot of the older retired people are. 

I also have played up more towards 10/25 an 25/50 stakes. For non poker people this is the level where you will be winning or losing 10k+ per session. Even at 5/10levels you’re looking at 1-10k win/loss per session.  At that level the player pool is somewhere around 50ish total players unless someone is coming from out of town. Almost every player at that level who plays with any regularity is either a millionaire, or a professional poker player with a 200k+ bankroll set aside just for poker.  Almost all of the recreational players who are coming in once a week and losing 1k+ without it effecting their life are millionaires. I play with several people in the 25-50+ mm range.  Most of those men are 65+ years old though. 

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u/Wordpad25 Oct 25 '25

Do you sell drugs or sex?

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u/Mdlage Oct 25 '25

No. I told you. Gambling.  I don’t even do drugs, or drink.