Dáire Bohan learned to code at age eight with encouragement from his father and developed a passion for creating video games. He founded Bura Games and built successful Roblox titles including Wizard Simulator and Anime Fighters. Those games generated substantial income while he was in college, making him a self-made millionaire by age 23. He followed his mother's advice to keep his wealth private to avoid relationships being influenced by money and to preserve his college experience. He avoided ostentatious purchases and focused on continuing to build games and plan for the future.
"I just fell in love," he says of that formative childhood experience. "Building a video game isn't all that different from playing a video game - instead of placing blocks, I'm now connecting these bricks together, but I'm still creating my own world."
"I realised that I didn't want people to like me because they thought I was cool because I made money, nor did I want people to hang out with me because they thought they could get something out of me," he tells Katie Byrne on the Money Talks podcast. "I wanted people to enjoy my company, and I also really didn't want it to taint my experience going forward, especially in college. I didn't want to flex, I didn't want to buy Rolexes and all this type of stupid stuff."
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