Hope this is true - How Peter Thiel turned $2,000 in a Roth IRA into $5,000,000,000

First you need access to buy startup shares at close to $0 per share. It doesn’t matter where you put those shares. You are going to be filthy rich either way.

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Romney’s IRA was also pretty big. North of $100M.

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Oooooh. I’ll have to keep this in mind for my son… :slight_smile:

Good for all these billionaires. For us common people, it’s good if we can accumulate $2M in our IRA/401 by the time we turn 60

Ted Weschler, now an investment manager for Buffett, grew his IRA from $70K in 1989 to $131M in 2012.