Kai(@kai_xbt):Luca Netz on growing up poor but seeing how billionaires lived every summer "We grew up really poor but my dad was an ex-tennis pro who taught tennis to all the billionaires in the Hamptons. On the summers I'd go there and see these really rich guys, tens of billions of dollars. I'd sleep in a hundred million dollar house with nine people staffing it and I was like, this life is way better, I want this life." "Most poor kids don't get that. The duality of spending most of my life having nervous breakdowns from being incredibly poor, and then these little pockets of seeing peak living, that duality was the motivation. Closed mouths don't get fed."

2026.07.31 18:43

Luca Netz on growing up poor but seeing how billionaires lived every summer "We grew up really poor but my dad was an ex-tennis pro who taught tennis to all the billionaires in the Hamptons. On the summers I'd go there and see these really rich guys, tens of billions of dollars. I'd sleep in a hundred million dollar house with nine people staffing it and I was like, this life is way better, I want this life." "Most poor kids don't get that. The duality of spending most of my life having nervous breakdowns from being incredibly poor, and then these little pockets of seeing peak living, that duality was the motivation. Closed mouths don't get fed."