If you are working at a FAANG you are already getting rich quick.

Working as a freelancer / small business hustler etc., bursts of success like this are extraordinarily rare, and typically fall between long seasons of not making much at all.

The upside of the freelancing / side hustling life isn’t the money, it’s the freedom.

Lots of practice, learning, and failure. This guy got a great combination of product/market fit, timing, and exposure. Finding product/market fit is a skill trainable like anything else (although an incredibly difficult skill to master), timing is just that (plenty of luck involved - but easier with product/market fit). Finally: exposure is easy with the first two - if you have solved a hot problem really well, of course everyone will pick up on that and make it viral.

Start with practicing finding product market fit and getting better at timing things. If you can do those, the rest (exposure, wealth, connections, etc) fall into place. It’s that simple, but it definitely isn’t easy at all

But I have the mindset that icons aren't worth a god damn dime yet 100k.

Be smart and creative, think different, and most importantly actually try stuff. Have a product in the world that people can pay you for. Don’t expect anything to happen but do it anyway. Whatever idea sets off a feeling of fear and excitement, do that idea. Don’t wait for a safe bet because there are none. If you are embarrassed to describe your idea because it doesn’t make sense to people, that’s also a good sign.