How did Warren Buffett go from a $5,000 net worth at age 14 to roughly $143 billion at age 96? Slowly, and then all at once. This video walks through the full year-by-year timeline of the Oracle of Omaha's approximate wealth, pulled from Forbes World's Billionaires lists, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and historical reporting from FinMasters, Celebrity Net Worth, and Insurance Journal. A few numbers that jump out. Buffett was not a millionaire until age 30. He was not a billionaire until age 56. And by his own account, roughly 99 percent of his fortune was built after his 50th birthday. That is the entire point of the chart. For decades the line barely lifts off the floor. Twenty thousand at 21. One hundred and forty thousand at 26. Seven million at 35. Sixty seven million at 47. Then compounding takes over. A billion at 55. Sixteen billion at 66. More than one hundred billion by his early nineties. Buffett famously compared his life to a snowball rolling downhill for a very long t...