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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by petra on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:10PM (#17340835)
>> Is Bill Gates self-made? Or was it the fact that his father could cut a $25,000 check on a whim?

And his mother had good connections with the IBM board, leading IBM to give the operating system business to Bill .

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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by aeternus on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:32PM (#17341475)
Everyone has certain advantages, one of the keys to creating value is to leverage those.

The public & press love rags to riches stories, so even someone without any of the traditional 'advantages' can leverage that for publicity, fundraising, etc. And many independently wealthy business-people have.

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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by skookumchuck on Monday June 18, 2018 @06:16PM (#17342064)
And yet IBM went to Digital Research first, and DR couldn't close the deal. Of course, Gates was already successful when IBM came by, and there's no reason to believe he wouldn't have been greatly successful with or without IBM.
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