How We Became Tech Millionaires by 26 

How did you actually get into Applovin/Google?

We both just applied and interviewed a lot of places! Had pretty good resumes, Sent in over 300 apps, and just interviewed and interviewed! It’s just a numbers game and if you keep at it you’ll find a landing spot you are excited about.

@@JoshandKatie Sounds stressful,, 300 applications in a month?

Over months but yes- but having options is way less stressful than having no offers 😊

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Fantastic! Josh studied Computer Science, Katie studied business management. We both have a lot of different career opportunities, so both great majors IOP.

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Intership exp and volunteering counts as experience. Go do relevent things for free until they pay you for it. Until then keep that job that pays you. You don't need to work full time, just be continuously employed/interning/volunteering with said company/organization, and keep an eye on specific "named" requirements (some employers may want a specific speciality/focus). In some cases, you may be able to substitute years in school for experience. Apply anyways, get to the interview, and come clean. Just tell them straight up and ask if they're really looking for several years experience for an entry level position. If they say yes, deadass ask them to intern for free under a senior staffer to get the experience. Tell them that you can't commit 100% if they're not willing to pay and ask if they can work around your paying job (word it as your "paying job" and not your "other job"). Tell them after 2 years you expect to have enough experience and that you'll be asking them to re-evaluate you for an entry level *paid* position. Also, while you're here commenting on videos, go watch videos on sales and negotiations. EVERYTHING is a negotiation if you talk to the right person, if they like you enough to listen, and if you work towards a mutual good.

For real! They are very lucky to land those jobs out of college

@@randomuserame thank you so much Ben for your reply! I have no idea why i didn't get an notification for your comment. I saw it by pure chance while re-visiting this video and my comment lol. I will actually screen shot your comment to remember it

These were pretty normal salaries for SF! We also chose to live well below our means (tiny studio apartment). If you can move to a giant city, but keep your expenses like LCOL college life, you could have a similar outcome.

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... excellent question that is the topic of the video we are filming right now ;)

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You really do make more if you find one that actually goes through an IPO!

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Not very common tho.. working together with many women means the man pays 100% of the bills while the lady saves her money...Keyword HER money.

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We disagree, we know many people who earn as much as we do but have little to none net worth and savings. If you don’t know how to keep money and grow money, you’ll never get ahead regardless of how much you make.

@@JoshandKatie Fair enough. Different experiences I guess. I do know people who try to save every dollar but miss out on big pay raises because they dont push their manager for it.

I’m not sure if you think it should be higher or lower but… yes we were fully transparent!

Josh Computer Science, Katie Business!

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Over 4K in both packages!

it matters more what % of the total basket of shares that is btw, 100 out of 200 vs 100 out of 1000 - 2 different outcomes

Would have been 100x harder without the edumacations. That’s for sure!

This is not the worth of our home. Our home is worth $1.4m. $600K is our equity position.

And yes you do count that- we could pull out $600K in a home equity line of credit. Watch our previous video if you are confused!

Discussing money is not taboo in American culture. That's why we're rich. 🇺🇸

They didn’t go over anything they invested in with it. That would’ve been good to know!

We put more money into it. We mainly invest in S&P and a handful of individual stocks.

I understand where you are coming from- none of the women in my life had careers either growing up, so this definitely wasn’t a clear path. But, I honestly didn’t get much judgment for taking this path after college. I mean don’t get me wrong, Grandpa definitely asks me where the kids are and I do get some comments. 🤣I think sometimes people care about others decisions way less than we care about how others feel about our decisions. At the end of the day, you need to do what makes you happy! also, $200K net worth is killing it (you are in the 1%!) and two kids under 26 is killing it! Don’t use our path as a comparison point, because you are doing wonderful!

We had some luck to get there in three years for sure, but our financial habits make wealth inevitable. It was just a matter of 3 vs. 10 years. You choose your place and you choose how you manage your money. Coming from a woman who grew up in rural potato country Idaho and a man who’s family declared bankruptcy in ‘08 and had to live on government assistance.

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@@JoshandKatie is it harder than at twitter because of the pay?

Once you hit a certain amount of financial security, things start to matter more than before (ownership, autonomy) and possibilities open up (funding, start ups ideas etc.)

@@JoshandKatie Ya if you reach your financial goals I see what you mean and you got better ways to spend the time. I personally like the safety net of something you know thats consistent. Were you finding your tech job were demanding or does it come more chill with experience? like working less than 40 hours a week?

I don’t think work life balance was the biggest factor. I just think we both had bigger aspirations and a safety net to work towards those aspirations for 10-15 years without having to worry about money.

Yes , for example we know stripe is valued at $95b

We are just sharing our experience. I genuinely had no idea how much my stock package was worth. It was a private company. It wasn't traded on the public markets

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We added more money to it every year. We mainly invest in s&p 500.

If it helps you to discount our accomplishments, so be it.

Luck escalated our timeline but wealth was inevitable with our financial habits.

We invest everything into the market and saved close to 80% of our income for three years.