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To become a millionaire, you have to get into a company where your equity will 10x or more.

Maybe if you want to be a millionaire at 25, but a career is longer than three years.

If you start at $150k, get a raise to $250k within 3 years, and $325k by 6—-$1 million net worth should be very very achievable before retirement.

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I started at $50k, never made more than $200k in a year. My net worth will be a million well before I'm 65.

A million isn't what it used to be.

Right. The term millionaire lost its original meaning and nothing new has replaced it. Even if we go back to the 1820s when the term was coined, the inflation rate hasn’t been nearly high enough for billionaire to work.

Decamillionare is probably about right but it’s a mouthful.

A million won't do much in maybe 10-20 cities across the world. Outside of that, a million dollars liquid is still life changing, retirement money

1 million at a safe withdrawal rate of 4% is $40,000 a year. Portland, Oregon in the US is somewhere around the 20th most expensive city to live in. You could survive in Portland on $40k/year but not exactly in some enviable lifestyle.

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