Twenty-two-year-old entrepreneur Emil Barr is sparking a generational debate: is financial freedom by age 30 worth sacrificing sleep, health and friendships?

The Step Up Social founder – who says he built two companies valued at over $20 million – says yes, telling “ Fox & Friends ” that “extraordinary sacrifice” is the price of “extraordinary achievement.”

“[Being successful required] a lot of sacrifice, and it wasn’t easy and that’s not necessarily something everyone wants to hear,” he said Thursday.

“I saw folks like Elon [Musk] that slept on factory floors to build Tesla and people like Kobe Bryant that trained at 4 a.m., even in the off-season, so I made those same decisions to grow my business.”

Barr doubled down on that message in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Monday, insisting

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