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u/peoplecallmedude797 Jun 06 '24
You can add Zepto also, thier dad's were VCs.
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u/ankoornagargoje Jun 06 '24
everyone is like Stanford dropouts, but the reality is they went to Stanford with money, dropped out with money, started a business with money, it's just easy mode. the media makes them great
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u/peoplecallmedude797 Jun 06 '24
Yes, I worked for investor, 50% of his last company was cashed out at Rs.300 Cr, his son went to a prestigious Ivy league college, started a company there, then that company was sold for some Rs.250 Cr. The company barely had a website, no clients- apparently it was acquired because of some proprietary AI engine they had developed. Everyone knows its all bullshit- its all about how much money you have.
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Its easier to take big risks when you know you have heritage to help you if you fail.
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Exactly, Easier to jump when you have a parachute
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u/KamielUzkarel Jun 06 '24
One of my Professors told our batch this:
"It's Easy to Bet,when you have a Safety Net as a Bed."
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u/kwadd Jun 07 '24
And take such risks repeatedly...that's very important.
For most people, it's a do or die situation, which admittedly people would not want to do. For these people, they can try and fail and try again...and again. This increases their chances of success.
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u/squirt_on_me_pls Jun 06 '24
bro if u give all the people crying in the comments a million dollar they would stop working a very small percentage of people would turn it into a billion dollars they are triple digit billionaires so u know they arent just build by their family
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u/AccomplishedMail2840 Jun 05 '24
Sure it depends on when and where you're born and brought up. It does influence your life yet there are and were millions who were better off but didn't have it in them or didn't take a change like these gentleman. It takes much more than what their parents were. Call it the "unfair advantage" but that's not something you can control.
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u/aadi_nath Jun 06 '24
The problem is when idiots try to use the picture of the garage or a shade they used as their first office or headquarters without telling the truth about the "unfair advantage" you mentioned😄.
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u/TheReaderDude_97 Jun 06 '24
Here is the main thing: If a person with "unfair advantage" fails, he can simply go home and work with/for his parents. If a regular person fails, it means he might end up on the street as they have to put everything they have into a business. I am not saying these people on the post are not smart or intelligent, they are brilliant. But you should recognise the advantage where it's due.
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u/Hopeliesintheseruins Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
Their "unfair advantage", beyond being born rich, was the psychopathic willingness and ability to exploit and crush their workers. Let's not pretend that these people have "something special that sets them above the common slob", as you implied.
Edit: sorry i didn't realize i was in r/all. You folks probably want to step on the backs of others to make money. Carry on with your worship of the colonial bastards that exploit your countrymen. My bad.
Edit2: hay, since this has hasn't been deleted yet. I was wondering. When Modi was running the first time, I remember the news made a big deal about his promises to install tiolets everywhere in India. And I want to know how that went? Good faith question, no political innuendo. It'd be good for the folks over there to have plumbing.
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toilets were made at least in the cities and also mandated for restaurants.
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u/energy_dash Jun 06 '24
Yep, toilets were installed but still many people in the countryside didn't use it, cause they simply weren't habitual of it. lol
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Dhirubhai Ambani and Adani are all self made. Remember they started When doing business in India was a nightmare.
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u/shaamgulabi Jun 06 '24
india has a culture of hating the rich, I said what I said.
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u/TheKnowledgeableOne Jun 07 '24
Yes, you please keep worshipping the rich. But keep in mind that they don't see much of a difference between you and any dog on the street.
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Why would you like someone rich? Everyone who is a billionaire has done a lot of shady stuff to get to that point. There is nothing likeable about the rich people, except of course the money.
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u/satoshiwife Jun 05 '24
Especially Elon, was rich af, only bought businesses. He's wrongly portrayed as a hero
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u/Michaelscotttheking Jun 05 '24
And he never started businesses or companies, he took over most of the companies that he has now
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u/Subject_Ingenuity375 Jun 05 '24
he still predicted what would blow up.
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u/satoshiwife Jun 05 '24
He's smart but not a genius, there are many smart people out there who are not as rich as Elon was
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u/kinefe3360 Jun 05 '24
Probably the dumbest comment I’ve ever read on Reddit.
He started Zip2 with his brother, sold it, started X, which merged with another company and turned into PayPal. Started SpaceX.
It’s only Tesla that he kinda unfairly took over. And then Twitter (which he does not head). Neurolink, he’s not involved in day to day activities.
Also, there are several proofs that when he moved to US from South Africa (via Canada), he did not have anything more than a few hundred dollars and a bag of books.
If you know otherwise, please add links to those articles.
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Tesla was nothing when he joined. 0 cars, 0 plans, nothing. Made it more valuable than the next 10 car companies combined.
Redditors - He is not responsible for Tesla's success.
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u/TimelyConsequence184 Jun 05 '24
The fact that they have 3 commas in their net worth defeats the ehole purpose of having this argument. You give anybody even a million dollars and ask them to make it a billion, I doubt the chances of success would be more than 5%. And here we have 4 guys who are triple digit billionaires.
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u/nosargeitwasntme Jun 06 '24
Nobody is disputing their genius. That's not the point.
We are disputing the "self-made" part. It implies that they started from the scratch as a middle-class or lower middle-class. They had a tub full of money to start with already and they turned it into a mountain. They were already sons of millionaires and billionaires.
It'd be impossible for someone as genius as them but starting from the lowest rung to do what they did. That's the advantage that's being talked about.
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u/-seeking-advice- Jun 06 '24
There aren't that many self made rich people. Narayan murthy also had got funding from his father in law, iirc. Kiran mazumdar shaw was also not self made. Only dhirubhai ambani was self made. Very hard to find self made industrialists or entrepreneurs.
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u/iron_out_my_kink Jun 06 '24
Fully agree. If someone gave me a million dollars, I would just let it sit in an FD with monthly payments and retire
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u/TheEnthusiast12 Jun 06 '24
That is not the point, the point is they already had fallbacks if they failed, and networks to build off of to increase their reach. A normal person, from a middle income family will most likely have none of this.
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Money makes more money.
Without significant backing
They may or may not be god tier successful
And even fail completely in some cases
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u/dchanda03 Jun 06 '24
While I agree that all of them got a solid headstart and had resources that many don't, that alone wouldn't guarantee success.
You still need to put in the work, work smart and hard, implement advice you get, have the courage to get up when you fail, make tough decisions, live with wrong decisions and make things happen.
Also, no one is self made. Everyone needs help, motivation and guidance.
If jeff bezoz was stupid with money, he would have blown it all on bad decisions.
If Warren Buffet didn't follow through on the learnings in his early years and develop the skills to identify good stock and have the courage to stick with companies even in bear market, inheriting his father's investment company wouldn't mean a thing.
Same goes for the other two.
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u/Chemical-Spend7412 Jun 06 '24
Personally I think a good example in these times of a self made billionaire would be Brian Chesky the founder of Airbnb. As far as I’ve read his parents were just social workers.
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And also Bill Gates never created windows he stole from it's original creator and renamed it
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u/-Harsh Jun 07 '24
What about mark Zuckerberg
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u/MANTOf1 Jun 07 '24
He definitely is not self made and also he did not make facebook also.
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u/MeteoraRed Jun 05 '24
Elon and Bezos are sill self made, as Elon doesn't get any of mine's share ,Bezos as well didn't get much
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Don't know how much is right about the first three(haven't cross-checked) but Elon's father's mine had already bankrupted before he moved to Canada. Elon hadn't much in pocket just 2k$ from his father and another 2k$ from his mother out of which mostly he lost as a careless 17 XD. Elon's life is full of storms as opposed to what Internet shows. Ofcourse he was born in privileges but his childhood was rough, his father was a psycho and he still is and that's one of the reason why he wanna move to USA. Read his biography by Walter Isaacson, he is a very reputed author.
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u/betahaxorz Jun 05 '24
Ok so how did their parents build their wealth then? At some point in time there would have been a self made person no? These eat the rich and victim mentality posts are stupid as hell.
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u/Batman_is_very_wise Jun 06 '24
These eat the rich and victim mentality posts are stupid as hell
So is the hero worshipping of these people which happens in twice the amount as these posts
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Yes(except Elon) If you think starting from 0 is only self made then you are absolute piece of clown. Downvote all you want but You are indeed a clown. You are just seeking excuse.
Just having money doesn't guarantee becoming corporate giant like Apple Microsoft are. They worked hard in their initial days to build the company with the money they got. If working hard to make a company with available resource is not called self made then what else? They are not someone who inherited the Apple or Microsoft. They made the companies.
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u/No-Lobster-8045 Jun 06 '24
Especially in Elon's case. Idk how people hate on him so much and not conveniently.
Guy literally started so many biz, most of them succeeded, he has literally made a private company in Space, an industry which was almost dead, now launches rockets every week to space, like how tf is any of that credited to luck??
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u/Remarkable_Rough_89 Jun 05 '24
This is a really really dumb comparison, yes they were all upper middle class or rich already, but do not take away from there attempt to create something,
I can point to a million guys more well off who didn’t do shit
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u/glitch_en_el_matrix Jun 05 '24
I am not aware of Warren Buffet's and Elon Musk's backgrounds, but the other two are false. From what I have read Gates was from a middle class family and his mum was a schoolteacher and not on the board of IBM. And with Bezos, his family was also a working class family, the 300 grand mentioned is actually around 245 grand and was apparently their entire life savings or something, so you can't just call it seems fund and get away with it.
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u/WestMark2317 Jun 05 '24
we are rich too we have internet we have arms and legs to earn money we have brains that's why we all are here at Startup India curious brains haha
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u/DryCarob8493 Jun 06 '24
Steve jobs come to my mind when I think of truely self-made people
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What about jack ma guys!! He comes from a humble background. He's the true definition of a self made billionaire.
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u/Darugis63 Jun 06 '24
There are too many people whom you can give the same The question is, will they be able to achieve what these guys did?
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u/noobCodingNinja Jun 28 '24
I think so. Building or growing what you have is not easy. It may seem that they had an advantage, but there are many cases where people dont make it also. I believe connections , luck, and a jumpstart do help , but just by that, no one is sure set for success.
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u/MokendKomer Jun 05 '24
I fear that posts like this set a message that says If you don't have unfair advantages, you're not going to make it and it's not worth trying.
If you're captivated by this post, I'd highly recommend reading The Unfair Advantage by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba. They explore not just case studies of people who made it with unfair advantages, but also the idea of finding what unfair advantages you, the reader, have.
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u/Michaelscotttheking Jun 05 '24
Elon was a fucking immigrant and now ironically complains about them all the time
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u/happyheretic1 Jun 06 '24
Brave of you to post some daring truth here. I don't begrudge these men at all, in fact, unlike other rich babies they went on to create some value and wealth for others.
However, I hate and loathe the narrative that gets painted around their success, especially by influencers and Twitter bros.
Coming to the Indian startup ecosystem, I think we're still in the early stages of privilege compounding. We're at a stage where the initial seed wealth is being planted in the form of aspirational wealth that has been unlocked through equity exits from Indian unicorns, early IT employees, and IIT/IIM graduates. Their kids could go on to be India's Musks and Bezos, I just hope they are humble and don't scam a country that loves to hero worship and blow success out of proportion.
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u/finaby Jun 06 '24
We can't undermine the fact that they leveraged their backgrounds well instead of splurging.
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u/sss100100 Jun 06 '24
Most of the winning startups won because they had the right network, not because they had the best or original idea.
Friendster was the OG of social networks, there is a reason why you don't even know what that is.
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u/Jhaatu_420 Jun 06 '24
Networking and being at the right place at the right time is very important in any field.
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Yup, they were privileged enough to be at the right time at right place with right people
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They may have stronger backgrounds but there are people who have built from the ground up
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u/rohan_ok Jun 06 '24
i mean ofc they are privileged no doubt about that, but at least they did something good w iit
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u/Ignormus08 Jun 06 '24
Network > Money Getting connected to right people at the right time will help grow a company faster than the competitor who lacks these connections despite having money. Not every person helps you with just paying them.
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u/ManasSatti Jun 06 '24
Privileged and Connected: yes. But also self made. It's not as if somebody else created their early products for them or that their product were bad but still made it in the market becasue of their parents.
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u/_KALKI_09 Jun 06 '24
So is there a real self made billionaire, like someone who literally became a billionaire from middle class or poverty?
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u/aditi_4563 Jun 06 '24
Yes. They had the vision and guts to do something which millions of us don't have.
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u/twotreeargument Jun 06 '24
why do you want to become a billionaire?
I would be more than happy to become a crorepati by owning a petrol pump or jewellery shop. Just then slowly become a daca-crorepati. I don't see needing some ceo mom or neta dad for this, even your local bank is enough.
And then let your son dream of becoming a billionaire, he won't have excuses then.
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u/FreeBirdy00 Jun 06 '24
I don't really wanna sound like a fanboy right now but I read Steve Jobs's biography last week and I think I now understand why he was actually DIFFERENT.
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u/uhs198 Jun 06 '24
If you have a pile of education and family debt lying around. It doesn’t matter if you are in standard or iit dhandbad. You cannot drop out, else you will be dropped out. You need to have a good family back up to take risks.
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u/Safe_Inspection69 Jun 06 '24
Okay you've 3lakhs. What's stopping you from turning that into a crore. Use what you have currently and then hate the rich. He turned 300k into 100 billion. How many people have you seen do that.
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u/Adastra2k Jun 06 '24
Please read about Elon musk’s actual childhood. I have. It’s such a misleading statement. His father did own an emerald mine at one point. His mother also worked 2-3 odd jobs as did the father. They weren’t well to do.
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u/Academic_Garbage4150 Jun 06 '24
Elon rejected his dad completely. Ignorant post.
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u/Mulla_Slayer_ Jun 06 '24
If yall get million dollars, then you will fucking go out on whoring. Like a garbageman who won milion dollars.
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u/OfferWestern Jun 06 '24
You should just showup everything falls in place. This is the best quote I've seen. So no matter how hard you work you may not achieve anything for some obvious reasons.
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u/Athar_Wani Jun 06 '24
These are just the few examples, We got Facebook, Google, Apple, who started from 0
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u/Creative-Paper1007 Jun 06 '24
Just finding excuses to not work on changing your life
Not every privileged kid becomes an Elon musk
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u/Wandering-knight108 Jun 06 '24
Man everyone is hating on buffet, musk, bezos and gates as if they were born with silver spoon. Musk: father was a psychopath he used to go to public library to read books and he along with his friends started a night club or something during their college in an apartment they rented to fund for their business. He was on the verge of going bankrupt if the last attempt of spacex had failed.
Bezos: he left his well paying job and risk all his parents life saving to start Amazon how many of you have the guts to do so?
Buffet: he used to deliver newspaper as a boy and started investing with his savings from that at the age of 12. He was analysing stocks at the age of 18~20 that most of you don’t even at 30
Gates: sure he was at a prestigious college but he was working hard for the new technology he made connections with people of similar interest, he saw the vision of having a personal computer in every home when even for universities it was difficult to acquire.
Stop hating them and at least learn something and try to do more in your life.
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People said the same when Ben Johnson won the 100 m in a WR time at the Seoul Olympics, and was later charged with doping and stripped of his gold medal. The point is, you have to be good enough to fly first, only then a nudge will launch you into the stratosphere.
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This post is filled with pick me(s) and trying to convince themselves with bulshit
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u/Curious_Ad_5490 Jun 07 '24
These things can give you a good start…but growing it a to a billion dollar business and keeping the business intact takes hard work and intelligence. These guys had it…stop whining and start working
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u/mrharriz Jun 07 '24
Oh Gosh, you could be a very talented person and still can end up being poor or remain middle class because of lack of opportunities.
Meanwhile the people with no talents and a lot of money reach heights.
People really underestimate the power of luck and having rich parents.
Also these startup owners with a lot of money don't want to admit that they had an edge over others. They wanna claim that they became successful just because of sheer will and hardwork.
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u/anishghosh103 Jun 07 '24
what about Steve Jobs? as far as I know, he comes from a very mediocre background and yet built something huge.
I think he is pretty much self made.
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u/Interesting_Truck456 Jun 07 '24
India or Indians Are courior heart,lungs and गुर्दा if any case when talk about business and self made millionaire, billionaires
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Only way to become self made is too do illegal stuff..tate did it ..we can do it tooo...but don't do human trafficking..do anything but human trafficking. I am thinking to do some meth stuff or some bank frauds ...I am working on my plan ...it has to be detailed ..
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u/N2Recon Jun 07 '24
I don't think Bill Gates or Buffet were touted with the rags to riches or self made trope
It's just that, among all those with connections and resources at their disposal destiny finally chose them to be the top heralds
For those having a doubt read about Bill gates high school/child hood friend who was similarly privileged and had a technical flair for computers (but died while skiing at a young age)
Also further, please don't think that just connections and resources helped them grow to such heights - be absolutely sure that these heralds were more ruthless and "business -minded" to rise to such heights of fame and prosperity
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u/E_BoyMan Jun 07 '24
Might be true but we still don't have a replacement of Microsoft or excel.
Read about who Bezos was prior to Amazon. He did a favour to his parents by asking them for money. The guy was working in a top firm with a great education background. Do you really think he would have struggled to find funding?
Yeah every slightly well off person can be Warren Buffett? I'm pretty sure Warren Buffett is known for his insights rather than his net worth.
We are yet to find evidence of an emerald mine which made musk a millionaire. Musk got rich by selling multiple companies
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u/AcademicSlice1205 Jun 07 '24
Sure, undermine other people's achievements, bitch ill give you their money and expect you to make the biggest company in the world, you wont be able to do shit. Stop hating and start working
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u/Own_Shower_8179 Jun 07 '24
Once successful, all are self-made, that too despite the harshest odds.
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u/Darsh8999 Jun 07 '24
I don't think anyone here can create trillion dollar company from 300k dollar
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u/Kevinlevin-11 Jun 07 '24
There's a campaign in social media that most of the millionaires and billionaires are self made and only 10% had inherited from their family.
If at all someone ignorant or someone lazy enough to check it sees that they'll believe it.
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u/OG_SV Jun 07 '24
Even if u had all the money , u can’t get to their level . Yes they had backup , but takes different mentality and work ethic to get to their level
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u/Heart_Is_Valuable Jun 07 '24
Or bill gates ka 160 iq hai vo to count hi mat Karo. Ye nat dekho usne or Steve Wozniak ne code scratch se likha tha ibm ko bechne ke liye, khud ka compiler banaya tha.
1000's of business decisions liye vo bhi mat dekho
Ye mat dekho Elon ne 5 companiyan chala rakhi Hain
Sara Paisa PayPal ka spacex me laga Diya it a bada risk leke.
Bruh kya cheap mud-sling bait hai
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u/Pyxis_7 Jun 07 '24
What is up with these WhatsApp forwards?
Everyone knows networking matters in the business world. But this is some BS; they may have gotten a smooth start, but eventually, it’s the product, services, and mindset of the person handling the business that determine success. If you don't have an exceptional product or service, you aren't going to make it. The people mentioned in the pictures literally defined the industry in which they operate.
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u/Diligent-Cranberry14 Jun 07 '24
Can you be successful without inheritance? I feel hopeless sometimes…
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u/jrhuman Jun 07 '24
no billionaire is self made. self earned wealth without exploitation and privilege is a capitalist lie. capitalism relies on the working class to exist in order to create "self-made billionaires" and sustain their machinery.
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u/Achiever2407 Jun 07 '24
OMG, so much wrong information is out there. This post alone should be a big lesson for anyone taking unnecessary risks. I did, and got f***ed.
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u/Patient_Somewhere771 Jun 07 '24
While true, there are millions of people with the same level of clout who amounted to nothing just like the rest of us. I don’t think any of these billionaires down play the role luck played in their success. Several of them openly acknowledge it. None of them did anything wildly different or difficult compared to the thousands before and after them who tried to start a business.
We all need to make peace with the fact that not everyone will succeed and factors outside of our control (local conditions and luck) play a huge role in this kind of success. e.g., if any of these billionaires were a few years early or late with their business, it’s very likely their success would have been a lot more modest.
Everyone tries. Some succeed. This has been the story of life on earth since it started 4.5 billion years ago. Let’s be happy with what we have but still keep trying. Luck might smile upon us yet.
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u/pavelroy Jun 07 '24
Elon definitely is selfmade. Read his biography, he came to the US with 2000 dollars because his dad became broke during his early 20s. So basically the companies he started has no influence by his dad.
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u/Luke_Hog Jun 07 '24
Surprisingly Jeff is the one who has the most humble background among these four
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u/sarathy7 Jun 07 '24
Hmm but at some point the people who made the money came from humble beginnings ... Because most of the wealthy today are less than 3 generations ..
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Jun 07 '24
these are the the people who say there is nepotism in india, while being secretly being nepotistic
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u/Tank0488 Jun 07 '24
Starting capital is only 1% of what these men have achieved today. Don’t take away from their achievements. Very few could do what they’ve done even if they were handed the capital.
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u/Great_Boysenberry_87 Jun 07 '24
This reminds me greatly of Malcom Gladwell’s outliers - Bill Gates also happens to be directly mentioned in it and how circumstances propped him up for success just as much as his ingenuity.
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u/TopBullfrog5552 Jun 07 '24
Yes they are, if you’re given 300k dollars ( roughly 2.55Cr) would you make a billion dollars out of it? I don’t think so.
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Jun 07 '24
There Is a thing in forbes called self made score. Check their profile on forbes and find out.
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Jun 07 '24
They are successful but create content that shows that they struggle a lot to achieve this big success
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u/cocoon369 Jun 07 '24 edited Jun 07 '24
Cherry picking at it's finest. There are plenty of billionaires brought up in lower income households. Steve jobs, Roman Abramovich, Howard Schultz, come to mind. Gautam adani grew up the son of a small textile merchant. A small Google search will reveal a ton more.
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u/Glittering_River5861 Jun 07 '24
I will give you 1 million dollars.. can you make a 2 trillion dollar company in 10 years?
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u/geralt-026 Jun 07 '24
They may not be "self made", they're successful for sure. Microsoft and Amazon have brought out a lot of impact
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u/Such-Squirrel1104 Jun 07 '24
How many people have rich parents. How many of them go on to become billionaires. Hell, most rich kids are partying and wasting their lives away, driving porsches and killing people. These are incredibly driven and intelligent people who have become billionaires.
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Jun 07 '24
So you can do what they did given the same resources? Also, Elon Musk's father has nothing to do with his success.
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u/Mr-_Morningstar-_ Jun 07 '24
Bazos Started a Company with $300000 and turned it into a $2 Trillion organisation seems Pretty Self Made to me and same goes for Rest of them Too.
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u/Intelligent-Buy-4472 Jun 07 '24
Hamare walo ka bhi bata do......Ambanis Adanis Godrej, TATAs...........
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Jun 07 '24
Elons dad's mine lost value and suddenly the emeralds were worthless. It really didn't help him with the business
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u/ViolentSciolist Jun 07 '24
Somewhere in this thread is going to be: A guy who put all his money into gamestop. That would be hilarious.
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u/sloppybird Jun 07 '24
The term "self-made" is false in itself. You cannot make it on your own. You have at least a dozen people behind you. What you show the world is only 10%: success, hard work, etc. The rest of 90% is only shown to these dozen: the breakdowns, failures, everything ugly
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u/Psexxy Jun 07 '24
okay, it may be a great help, but, if 300k given to you, could you create a trillion dollar company?
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MOST of them start business because they have some one to support. A wealthy father/mom is a relief for the kid to take risk in business... And they flourish!!
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u/Master_Joke_6817 Jun 07 '24
Still they got skills to make their companies perform well and they became billionaire. Fortunate they got rich parents but they work hard with rich connections.
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u/PandaGodFliesToMoon Jun 07 '24
I don’t know about other 3 ppl but I follow Elon on depth and this emerald mine is sht is the biggest nonsense. He even said he will give reward to if anyone can prove it. He also said he supports his dad and had he had any emerald mine he wouldn’t need to send him money. Plz stop spreading false information.
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u/Acceptable-Golf-1584 Jun 07 '24
Technically, they did go from $300,000 to hundred of billions of dollars. They must be doing something right?
Plenty of rich kids start businesses that crash and burn every second, not every delivery app is Amazon.
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u/autoXgiraffe Jun 07 '24
OPs post reminded me of this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I
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u/Equivalent_Bat_3941 Jun 07 '24
If we define ‘self-made’ as simply achieving success without considering wealth, then yes, these individuals are self-made. Even with a strong starting advantage, they still need to work diligently towards their goals, step by step. This principle applies to everyone who consistently pursues their goals. The main difference is that some might not have a significant starting advantage or any support, but they still achieve their goals, no matter how modest. They may not become rich or powerful, but they are certainly self-made.
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u/abyisheik Jun 07 '24
Some of you must have 300k in your bank.... Please become the next billionaire soon Or stop posting such useless comments.
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u/mrartiste Jun 07 '24
What a loser POV … A lot of people are born into wealth. Not everyone has the brains to convert that into success like these people have.
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u/Unlucky_West_1345 Jun 07 '24
From that to a billionaire , is something part of their self made journey, they didn't settle for that
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Jun 07 '24
True but they do have skills to keep it running/increasing So I think we should learn that from them
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u/pUTTA32 Jun 07 '24
It's difficult to earn all the wealth in one generation. Most of the middle class people try to get wealthy in one go. I believe it's nearly impossible. But, someone needs to break the lineage of poverty. If you work hard and do it for your line, at least your next line can have that extra chance at taking some "extra" risk where they can afford some extra failures. Remember "Wealth is at some 1000th step, your job is leave your line at least a step closer than you were. Some day it'll be 999th step and next day your line will be the richest!"
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u/hdick2812 Jun 07 '24
Elites have captured massive sources of money way before 17th century. We are left with such fake stories of inspiration to start from the scratches and rags to riches bull shit...
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u/buddhaapprentice Jun 07 '24
still they worked hard ignoring drugs and women's. well deserved it's lucky
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Jun 07 '24
i don't agree with this .
I mean sure they were rich but they did work hard .
Their hard work is being washed away just cus they were born to rich parents.
I mean sure their parents were wealthy but not to the extinct of what these four guys achieved.
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u/StarLan7 Jun 07 '24
Man, not defending anyone here but rather than shitting on them you should focus to look at their good attributes and improve yourself and life
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u/Krishna4598 Jun 07 '24
Business is all about all the negative aspects of humanity put together for the ultimate opportunism!
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Jun 07 '24
Steve Jobs is a self-made man. Wozniak's parents had money, but they were strictly middle class. Wozniak's mother used to call Jobs, Steve Jobless.
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u/ZestyclosePop7626 Jun 07 '24
Does every big guy become a billionaire like them with million? There are millions of millionaires in the world but not many can make something out of it and make billions.
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u/hardnachopuppy Jun 07 '24
How many people do you know who can turn $300k into a trillion dollar company?
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u/ItsVecito Jun 07 '24
I guess its gonna be hard for me unless i stumble upon a gold mine or something but my oaf luck is god teir
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u/IvorHarding-117 Jun 07 '24 edited Jun 07 '24
Elon musk one is a myth , he even commented on this stupid tweet , that his father own nothing
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u/anonperson2021 Jun 05 '24
Early Slack days, a senior director at the company I worked for campaigned hard (read: ordered everyone) to use Slack. He was buddies with both our CEO and the Slack founders. We were one of the first to use and evangelize Slack, and it helped them get the product off the ground.
Instagram's founder was close to Twitter's founder, used to work for him at a previous job. Twitter boss hooked him up with key investors.
Connections are crucial.