How 20 year old Kylie Jenner built a 900M fortune in 3 years

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5 pointscvaidya19863 comments

Self-made is a huge stretch here...she is literally the product of her mother's intelligence. Put her in any other situation and she'd be yet another bratty 20 year old.

She'd be nowhere if she didn't have (1) a platform for the past 10 years (2) abundant financing (3) family (4) appearance.

It's definitely frustrating to see someone so successful as a result of extraordinary circumstance and with a product that's value is derived from it's perception rather than technological innovation.

I know this is a valid business strategy, but I don't think it was consciously developed that way, at least initially, it seems like she just sorta walked into this thing and it took off.

I don't think she struggled a lot to achieve this, I guess that is why it is frustrating. I feel like her main advantage was her platform, which she was really born into rather than anything else.

I guess trying to look at the positive side of this, it proves that most of "startup hacks" you read about on HN are BS. None of that really matters, or ever has.

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