Even then, he got a good amount of his initial wealth by just investing in other people’s companies.
Hardly self made when worker exploitation was the norm at that time. He cane from a time when striking workers were literally bombed by the US military or just shot down in the street like disobedient dogs.
Hmm seems as though he was born “poor” by a standard set now, but his father moved up in his industry pretty well and he had political affiliations in his family. “Self-made” isn’t a real thing.
There’s some who came from nothing back in the day, ex: Andrew Carnegie. But times are different now I guess.
Even then, he got a good amount of his initial wealth by just investing in other people’s companies.
Hardly self made when worker exploitation was the norm at that time. He cane from a time when striking workers were literally bombed by the US military or just shot down in the street like disobedient dogs.
Not self made.
Hmm seems as though he was born “poor” by a standard set now, but his father moved up in his industry pretty well and he had political affiliations in his family. “Self-made” isn’t a real thing.
Where you getting that info from his father?
The one recent exception I can think of is Notch, but that was more luck than anything else.
Wasn’t his idea just a closed source version of InfaMiner?
The idea of voxel games was old by the time either came around, Notch just made his more fun.