How I Turned $500 Into $7 Million! (EXACT math and timelines)

Описание: My trolls think I faked my $7 million portfolio.
Like yeah bro, I definitely Photoshopped my Schwab account… because the sexiest flex is a fake investment portfolio, obviously.

Let me show you the exact math behind how I went from $500 to $7 million with Triple Compounding, not triple catfishing.

In 2012, I started with $500. Which was the exact same budget as my ex’s hair gel habit.
This is after I had gotten fired from my corporate job so I was hustling side gigs from making finance videos for other companies, to waitressing, and teaching Japanese businessmen English at $12 an hour.

Nothing says ‘financial freedom’ like a Japanese guy asking: ‘Teacher, how do you pronounce… credit default swap?’
My income fluctuated between $500 and $4,500 a month.
…which meant my budget meetings with myself sounded like: ‘Are we eating sushi tonight or are we licking the soy sauce packet?
But here’s the thing: No matter how broke I was, I put 25% into my investment portfolio.
Now, my Persian Jewish family saw this
They’re like:

‘25%… in a portfolio you can’t even touch or show off?! Are you crazy?! What even IS a portfolio? Why don’t you put that money in things people can actually see — like a white BMW, a nice apartment so a Persian Jewish surgeon will want to marry you… or at least a fake Chanel bag?! How are you going to find a husband with an invisible portfolio?!’
Meanwhile, I’m like: ‘Sorry Mom, I’m investing in Microsoft.’
And she’s like: ‘Microsoft? What is that? You don’t even have a Soft Couch.
By 2018, my portfolio hit $100K.
My family was like: ‘$100K? That’s not even enough for a wedding in Great Neck.’
And I’m like: ‘Yeah, but at least my money’s growing… unlike the Persian doctor’s hairline you keep trying to set me up with.

By 2021, I cracked my first million in revenue.
And here’s the crazy part: my REVENUE before taxes and expenses was $1M. But my portfolio that I had started with $500… hit $2.5M by the end of that year.
That’s insane — because most entrepreneurs who brag about hitting a million in revenue are actually broke.
Revenue isn’t profit. It’s just the topline number you scream on Instagram before the IRS shows up.
If you can’t manage and grow $100, you sure as hell can’t manage and grow $1M.
You’ll just buy a louder Lamborghini on your already maxed-out credit card to cry in.
And no, I didn’t YOLO it all on Dogecoin. I owned 200 companies: Nvidia, Tesla swing trades, Meta (who owns Instagram), Google (who owns YouTube), and Netflix. Basically, I owned half of your screen time. So if you were doomscrolling at 2am, congrats — you were paying my mortgage.
By 2023, when I borrowed against my portfolio to buy our $12 million home, I stopped contributing new money altogether.
My portfolio was accelerating on autopilot: limit orders, DRIP reinvestments, swing trades.
At that point, my money was literally working harder than my ex-boyfriends in Japan…
And those guys worked until midnight for free!
By 2025, that little $500 had grown into a $7M portfolio. And my overall net worth grew to $17M.
Not luck. Not a lottery ticket.
But consistent Triple Compounding in three asset classes:
👉 myself, 👉 my career, 👉 and value stocks.
And three actions at each level:
👉 generate, 👉 automate, 👉 accelerate.
Turns out, the best way to get rich…
is to ignore your family, your trolls, and anyone who thinks a BMW lease is an investment.