It's also about who you know not what you know. The opportunity to get wealthy is only given to those the older wealth approve of. All the biggest names in tech built their monopolies on VC dollars.
I would just like to hear the opinions of the two dumb cunts who downvoted this. Do they think billionaires are genius visionaries who saved us plebs from lives of mundane squalor?
Not a fan of him by any means, but I believe the Zucc managed to become a billionaire at 23 without inheriting all or most of it like a bunch of these new young billionaires.
Still built his wealth off the back of others like any other billionaire, but I believe he's one of the more "self made" ones. Still couldn't have done it without family connections and risk-free loans most of us couldn't get, though.
I meant that he actually had to work for what he made, rather than getting it as an inheritance, but he still had insanely favorable circumstances to start with.
Beats Notch. Notch would have been 34 when Microsoft bought Minecraft from him for MAX_UINT32 dollars. And other than expressing the wrong political views (but not especially throwing money at politics, mostly just tweets) he's one of the less evil billionaires.
34 to be specific - I only know because I'm several months older than her, and it's always nice to have someone successful my age to compare myself to and feel worse about myself and how unsuccessful I am (I'm obviously joking a bit).