Musk on stage with Chapelle last night, Elizabeth Holmes, or SBF’s whole schtick, who are the ones who have kept their feet on the ground?
What are the attributes of these others who don’t lose themselves in fawning attention and (sometimes short-lived) mountains of capital?
The person who built a liquor store and grew into 20 stores across the city. People who started consulting companies. That immigrant family who scraped and scraped for decades while living above their restaurant. The list is endless, especially compared to the much shorter list of crypto criminals who are drunk on their illusory power and fame, which seems to always disappear overnight.
Any fool can make a fortune; it takes a person of brains to hold onto it.
Ross Perot was a billionaire from consulting, before being a billionaire was a thing. Plus he was a genuinely good person.
Both my perception and my experience from knowing several extremely wealthy 'self-made' people is that the vast majority are fairly quiet, prudent, bright and hard-working people who've managed to make (mostly) good long-term decisions and continue doing so consistently over time. I suspect the "crazy, playboy billionaire" stereotype is based more on high-visibility outliers rather than the majority. Outlandish, eccentric and/or entitled behavior makes for good stories and click fodder while typical long-term value-building behaviors are pretty boring.
Although I get the impression a large part of Buffet's normalcy is because he's chosen to spend his time making money for other people.
If you're ridiculously rich... you could do worse than thinking of common people as your boss, for perspective.
You are only pointing to the very few who couldn't handle it or are drawn to attention.
Power is hard to measure, but in this context it seems reasonable to include lots of founders in the list. The Collison brothers, sama, and Brian Armstrong, to name a few. They’re all in charge of fortunes that normal people can only dream of.
I don’t think any of them have made critical errors. And it’s arguable whether Musk has, but time will tell.
By saying yes, she was, in effect, Amazon's first investor, and worked there in the early days. The value of positive support from family cannot be underestimated (see also Jeff Bezos' parents' early investment in the company).
I have no clue who these people are:
Hank & Doug Meijer
Tom & Judy Love
Stewart & Lynda Resnick
Andrew & Peggy Cherng
In fact the list of ones I recognize is tiny compared to the whole list.
Some of them don't even have pictures, but they're all billionaires. And yes, I consider even a single billion to be a great, real fortune. Most people will never crack a million.
You realize that he's not asking to go on the show, people are asking him to come on the show. Your questions should be directed at Dave Chappele.