Escaping Silicon Valley

10 Questions With Escaping Silicon Valley

March 18, 2021 by Mr. 1500 Days 10 Comments

After an unplanned hiatus (#COVIDLife), 10 Questions is back! If you'd like to be featured, just follow the rules here. Please note that I have a bit of a backlog to work through, so it will be a couple of months before new submissions get published.Today's feature is Escaping Silicon Valley (ESV). ESV is one of the few 10 Questions participants that I've had the good … [Read more...] about 10 Questions With Escaping Silicon Valley

My goal was to build a portfolio of $1,000,000 by February of 2017; 1500 days from the birth of this blog (January 1, 2013). And hey look, I’ve since retired!

Investments only
1/1/13 (The Start): $586,043
1/1/14 (1 Yr Later): $869,635
1/1/15 (2 Yrs Later): $987,351
1/1/16 (3 Yrs Later): $1,057,961
1/1/17 (4 Yrs Later): $1,257,128
1/1/18 (5 Yrs Later): $1,527,701
1/1/19 (6 Yrs Later): $1,549,440
1/1/20 (7 Yrs Later): $2,035,040*
1/1/21 (8 Yrs Later): $3,379,746**
1/1/22 (9 Yrs Later): $4,762,642

2022: Investments only
1/1: $4,762,642
2/1: $4,404,447
3/1: $4,214,068
4/1: $4,499,622
5/1: $4,007,476
6/1: $3,929,270

Overall
2022 investment gains: -$833,372
Investment gains since 1/1/2013: $3,343,227
Net worth***: $4,159,270

* The big jump between 2019 and 2020 was partly because we bought another home, but kept the previous (much more expensive) one as a rental. We have since sold it.

** Tesla.

*** Includes our primary home equity in addition to our investment portfolio.

Finally, we still have about $290,000 in mortgage debt (which I love!). No regrets about the debts!