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Luca Netz says he "grew up really poor" but spent summers in the Hamptons because…

2026-08-01 · 08:47 UTC ·@retardmode ·1 min read

Brief

Luca Netz recounts growing up poor yet spending summers in the Hamptons because his ex-tennis-pro father taught wealthy clients. Netz claims he sometimes slept in a hundred‑million‑dollar house staffed by nine people and witnessed billionaires worth "tens of billions." He says that contrast — chronic hardship plus glimpses of extreme wealth — motivated him: "Closed mouths don't get fed."

Why it matters

Luca Netz says he "grew up really poor" but spent summers in the Hamptons because his father was an ex-tennis pro who taught tennis to billionaires; Netz claims he slept in a "hundred million dollar house" with nine staff and saw people with "tens of billions" (post shared Aug 1, 2026).

Key details

  • He frames a motivating "duality": prolonged poverty and 'little pockets' of peak living created his drive to pursue wealth, concluding with the aphorism, "Closed mouths don't get fed."
Source evidence

“i grew up really poor, i had to spend my summers in the hamptons with my dad who was a professional tennis player”

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."

Video

— https://nitter.net/kai_xbt/status/2083262396773359762#m