1) He's punching above his weight
2) There's no way you can 'travel the world' on 40,000 Canadian dollars a year unless you live like a smelly backpacker.
3) It kind of glossed over the way they turned 500,000 dollars into a million. Unless they went into a casino and put it on red, that's going to take a while.

1) He's punching above his weight
2) There's no way you can 'travel the world' on 40,000 Canadian dollars a year unless you live like a smelly backpacker.
3) It kind of glossed over the way they turned 500,000 dollars into a million. Unless they went into a casino and put it on red, that's going to take a while.

3)

"This story has been modified to clarify that Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung doubled their $500,000 savings to $1 million by both investing the initial amount and continuing to invest additional savings."

Additionally, they got in when equities were relatively cheap.