How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates

Re:How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates by pg on Thursday April 09, 2009 @01:04AM (#553969)

The first 3 steps seem to be optional. Larry and Sergey didn't have rich ancestors or get their ideas by buying them, and it doesn't seem to have harmed them.

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Re:How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates by bonsaitree on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:18AM (#554025)

True, but Google wouldn't have even been launchable without his family's connections to Sun Microsystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim and his $100k angel investment.

Mark Zuckerberg is a more apt comparison. With all of the money and privilege he had growing up, he'd better be changing the world.

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Re:How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates by pg on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:42AM (#554037)

Neither had family connections to Bechtolsheim that I know of. Where did you hear that?

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Re:How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates by anamax on Thursday April 09, 2009 @09:20AM (#554309)

Stanford CS "family".

Without knowing the story (but knowing some of the players), I'd guess that David Cheriton is also involved.

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Re:How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates by ajju on Thursday April 09, 2009 @01:14PM (#554717)

Stanford CS is a "family" you don't have to be born into. You can get into Stanford by being good.

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Re:How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates by galactus on Thursday April 09, 2009 @12:56PM (#554687)

What is interesting is how "optional" it actually is. Being very tall is also "optional" if you want to become an NBA player (Nate Robinson is 5'9"), having working legs is "optional" if you want to climb the everest, etc.

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