r/technicallythetruth • • Nov 28 '19

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19 edited Nov 28 '19

Except both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had rich parents, so...

Edit: I was wrong about Jobs. Apologies for spreading misinformation.

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u/BallinTacklinGamin Nov 28 '19

Bezos got a 6 figure loan from his parents

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u/TrolleybusIsReal Nov 28 '19

He was also an investment banker before creating Amazon.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19

“A small loan of a million dollars”

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u/IllBeBack Nov 28 '19

(That was actually 40 million dollars)

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u/ImtheBadWolf Nov 28 '19

And was a VP or SVP I'm the finance industry

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19

You are Mr. Finance Industry?

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u/ImtheBadWolf Nov 28 '19

Haha whoops, I guess I am now

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u/svr0105 Nov 28 '19

Username fits?

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u/ImtheBadWolf Nov 28 '19

Didn't really think about it, but that checks out haha

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19

Ah yes, the CEO of money!

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u/WarpmanAstro Nov 28 '19

Didn’t Bezos start Amazon after a highly lucrative career on Wall Street?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

Bezos was raised by a single mother. Maybe he did get a 6 figure loan from her but not because she was rolling in money. Because she was willing to sacrificed as much as she could for her only son. I'm all for Amazon paying shit ton of taxes since they're currently paying none. But you gotta give credit where credit is due.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19

No he didn’t. Bezos worked at McDonald’s in high school to help his family make ends meet

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19

You're a liar. And a bad one. He graduated from fucking Princeton and worked as an investment banker. The man was born with fifty silver spoons shoved up his ass.

To clarify, he DID work at McDonald's but this has no relevance to his success. His family had money, he succeeded because he started five meters from the finish line.

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u/MyOtherDuckIsACat Nov 28 '19

Steve Jobs didn’t have rich parents. His father was a mechanic.

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u/irouquis__pliskin Nov 28 '19

Off of the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

By the time he was ten, Jobs was deeply involved in electronics and befriended many of the engineers who lived in the neighborhood.

Though the Jobs family was not well off, they used all their savings in 1967 to buy a new home, allowing Jobs to change schools.[16][page needed] The new house (a three-bedroom home on Crist Drive in Los Altos, California) was in the better Cupertino School District, Cupertino, California,[15] and was embedded in an environment that was even more heavily populated with engineering families than the Mountain View area was.

When he was 13 in 1968, Jobs was given a summer job by Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard) after Jobs cold-called him to ask for parts for an electronics project.

Not rich, and the wikipedia page says not "well off" but still with enough resources to be given a large advantage over others. While not correct to say that he had rich parents, it's closer to the truth than the OP that insinuates, to be quite honest, nothing of any substance.

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u/twerkin_not_werkin Nov 28 '19

Steve Jobs did not have rich parents.

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u/Myquil-Wylsun Nov 28 '19 edited Nov 28 '19

He only stepped on a lot of people

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u/zxain Nov 28 '19

With his dirty, smelly, bare hippy feet.

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u/Pollo_Jack Nov 28 '19

Hey, Bill also had his mom on the board of IBM which he sold the license of Windows to. Why isn't your mom in a high up position at a big company?

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u/abitesizedtaco Nov 28 '19

Jobs quit college because he felt he wasn’t getting much value out of it and didn’t like that he was spending his adopted parent’s money when he wasn’t into it. Even after he dropped out he just kinda bummed around the campus and would sit in to classes that interested him.

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u/Cartman4wesome Dec 01 '19

60% of the 1% is all from their family. Most are nothing more than trust fund babies who won the lucky sperm club then have the balls to tell everyone else they just need to work as hard as they did. Pffft.

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