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Re:Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation by ifhd on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @04:45PM (#15554101)
How much did Oprah have when he said that?
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Re:Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation by fizwhiz on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @04:57PM (#15554195)
source: http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/tony-norman/2004/05/21/T...

Authored in 2004, at which point Oprah had $1.1Bn[1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/maserati/billionaires2004/LIRO0ZT.htm...

Edit: nvm, the article talks about a Chris Rock quote from the previous year (2003) at which point Oprah doesn't show up on the Forbes website.

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Re:Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation by QAPereo on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:26PM (#15554433)
Does it matter? The answer is still, “at least an order of magnitude less than Bill...”
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Re:Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation by davidcbc on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:33PM (#15555208)
An order of magnitude less than Bill Gates is still outrageously wealthy.

Forbes says there are 1940 billionaires in the world today, that puts anyone over $1 billion in the top 0.0001 percent.

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Re:Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation by ifhd on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @06:35PM (#15554897)
3.1 billion is wealthy.
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