Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary is cautioning young entrepreneurs to play it safe, and to not jump into a project before they amass a certain amount of money. And that amount, according to him, is $5 million.
“When you have money, you can take risks. I tell young entrepreneurs all the time, you have to get to a place where you have $5 million in the bank,” O’Leary recently wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
According to a video he posted, O’Leary believes that once you reach this $5 million amount, only then you can take financial risks.
“You have to get to a place where you have $5 million in the bank,” he said in the video. “You can survive the rest of your life no matter what happens, and your family. You can take care of a lot of people making 6% or 7% of $5 million. When you make that you have to set that and you don’t risk it. Then after that, you can start to take risk capital and put it to work.”