> <i>Mike Bezos, Jeff’s adoptive father and a Cuban immigrant who worked as an engineer at Exxon, one of the world’s top oil companies</i><p>So his "father with money" is a Cuban immigrant? That kind of changes the narrative.
The narratives nowadays always try to paint Gates as a pillar of the community and ace businessman. But in reality his start was down to pure luck and then building a monopoly through illegal business practices and totally unethical behavior. The guy always will be a cretin.
The Zuck has proven that getting lucky with one webpage is more about being in the right place at the right time, as opposed to any skill or business acumen he has. The strategy to buy up all the potential competitors in your space allows him to take the scattergun approach to extremes. But Zuck has proven that anything his Facebook company tries to grow organically is a disaster.
Well, there are anecdotes contrary to this proposition. For example Google's cofounder Sergey Brin [0] comes from an immigrant family of modest means, upper middle class perhaps but not rich.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin</a>
> <i>Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire Is a Father with Money</i><p>Dumb headline, obviously wrong. It may be true for those <i>billionaires</i> but there are many <i>millionaires</i> for which this isn't true. I know single-digit millionaires who ran away from home as teenagers and never had anything to do with their parents again.
Aren't these the same people who say things like<p>> the difference between a billion dollars and a million dollars is a billion dollars<p>Mobility is bad unless it's literally from zero to billion?
Funny, the only mention of Elon Musk is in the description of the header photo... I wonder, why include him in the photo at all if you're not going to talk about him? Did he have rich parents?<p>So what I'm getting from the article is that these three men lived in middle class households in the 70s, 80s and 90s, a period in America with a strong middle class, and that <i>by today's standards</i> had well off parents, but by the standards at the time, maybe only a little better off than the average person? There's a big difference between withdrawing a quarter million dollars from the bank and taking out a home equity loan and risking your security to help your son's business venture.
Lol so now the article is getting edited as criticism builds in this thread? If that isn't evidence that someone's trying to create a narrative...