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Bezos got three hundred thousand dollars from his parents to start Amazon. Gates only got the DOS deal because of his mother's connection to IBM. Zuckerberg's mother was a doctor, and his father a dentist. Musk's father owned an emerald mine.

How rich are your parents?

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Growing under communism, my parents were dirt-poor. So after the fall I had to do it the hard way: first got a job, saved enough money to have a little runway, then start a small business, etc.

But I have nothing against people who grew up under a humane system, got help from parents or VCs and made something of themselves. Because I know plenty of bums who had everything they ever needed and did absolutely nothing with it.

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