ATM King: I grew up so poor I had to share baths — now I bank $240K a month
nypost.comsights set on the controversial Bitcoin market.Gilmore, 38, was raised by his single mother in Atlanta with his two siblings.He remembers nights when the power went out, his family lived off cereal and sandwiches and visited their grandparents to be fed as his mom Sandra — who passed away in 2019 — struggled to keep up with the bills. “Don’t get me wrong, my mom was a saint — but times were tough,” Gilmore told Jam Press. “One thing that stands out for me is how my mum used a portable stove to heat water on whenever the power would go out, and we’d then pour it into the bathtub.
Then I would get into the tub first because I was the eldest, followed by my younger brother and sister.” “As a kid I just thought it was magic,” he said.
But he remembers watching his mother being burdened by bills throughout his childhood and his school life wasn’t much of an escape.
He felt that he was “written off” by teachers when he was expelled at 15, but it pushed him to begin building his wealth at a young age.“It was a very difficult time but it has absolutely motivated me to do well in life,” Gilmore noted.
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