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Whose rise to wealth is most impressive?
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:13 PM Author: Poppy nursing home Bezos Gates Adelson Bloomberg Zuckerberg
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:13 PM Author: vigorous lavender menage jjc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596917) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:28 PM Author: honey-headed spectacular reading party base (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37597042) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:14 PM Author: Offensive House Zuckerberg. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596922) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 12:11 AM Author: hateful cyan school police squad impressive or bewildering
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:15 PM Author: trip ivory philosopher-king Clinton. went from white trash, welfare, single mom, in Arkansas to Yale Law and then POTUS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596926) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:15 PM Author: comical cobalt coldplay fan Both Bill and Hillary were trash. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596933) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:16 PM Author: Brass Main People Site kind of weird how Bill/Hillary went from white trash --> upper class, whereas Trump went from upper class --> white trash. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596938) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:23 PM Author: Racy Pea-brained Idiot Address thought Hillary was upper middle class. Nice Chicago neighborhood. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37597003) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:27 PM Author: marvelous senate Correct. Bill has the real rags to riches story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37597036) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:38 PM Author: white cuck depressive Hillary grew up middle class and promised herself she would destroy it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37597117) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 12:12 AM Author: comical cobalt coldplay fan 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600379) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 4:07 AM Author: chestnut hall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600934) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:15 PM Author: Brass Main People Site (doesn't understand how multiple choice questions work) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596934) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:31 PM Author: honey-headed spectacular reading party base Clinton wasnt white trash he was just from bumfuck nowhere
for most of his life his mom was married to some cuck that owned a ford dealership and he essentially grew up umc
the idea that he was eating welfare cheese into his 20s has as much legitimacy as the idea that he was the first “black” president because he ate mcdonalds or that Trump is self-made |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:49 PM Author: trip ivory philosopher-king damn, so I bought the msm hype is what your telling me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37597182) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:15 PM Author: Brass Main People Site Gates - simply because he changed the world whereas the others just got rich and are assholes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596928) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:19 PM Author: thriller crackhouse goal in life what do you mean
steve jobs and him were sort of on the same track |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 2:20 AM Author: Godawful Area Deer Antler But Gates would never fall for a fucking fruit cleanse cancer treatment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600752) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:15 PM Author: Jet fiercely-loyal lodge old irish cottage nutella grew up as a literal peasant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596932) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:19 PM Author: thriller crackhouse goal in life yeah seriously all those Jewish dorks worked around the clock and took risks and for every 5 you see here there are 1000 pathetic failures living in Fair Lawn, NJ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37596955) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:28 PM Author: Rebellious indirect expression who the fuck is Adelson I'd say Zuck for doing it in his 20s/early 30s edit: turns out Adelson is some casino guy I dock points for being a parasite profiting from gambling I think OP is suggesting rising from abject poverty is more impressive than starting from a good base but I don't really consider that, I just look at how you made most of your wealth |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:34 PM Author: High-end swashbuckling circlehead Gates was a billionaire at 31. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37597087) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:35 PM Author: Rebellious indirect expression isn't he a giving pledge beta now or is that prestigious |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:36 PM Author: High-end swashbuckling circlehead It's beta but that isn't part of his "rise to wealth" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37597100) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:38 PM Author: Rebellious indirect expression yeah ig he's better than Zuck but out of sight out of mind etc |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:11 AM Author: onyx gaped gas station What kind of retarded rock do you live under that you don't know who Sheldon Adelson is? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600595) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:18 AM Author: Rebellious indirect expression cr everyone keeps a list of random wealthy people who don't lead highly visible consumer companies in their heads like they were popular musicians and athletes ask me about any member of the Walton family |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:28 AM Author: onyx gaped gas station Adelson's name is literally brought up during every major election because of his scale of donations. You must be completely tuned out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600642) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:31 PM Author: lilac corner adelson. IIRC he's the only one who grew up without means at all
bill gates' dad was/is a kingmaker corp lawyer in seattle, zuckerturd's dad was a rich big shot dentist. bezos and bloomberg at least had comfortable middle/UMC backgrounds |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 3:34 PM Author: Rebellious indirect expression these guys all won the genetic lottery or profited from good circumstances/timing so I can't dock points from the tech guys because their fathers had respectable careers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37597082) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:28 AM Author: Doobsian Peach Locale All of them are like 5'6... Genetic lottery ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600641) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:31 AM Author: Rebellious indirect expression extreme outlier iq + resourcefulness, greed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600649) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:08 AM Author: Bateful red feces point Rich dentist?? Lol wtf...$300k is rich now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600592) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:20 AM Author: house-broken alcoholic stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600626) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:04 AM Author: Floppy Clown yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600844) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 11:59 AM Author: lilac corner 1) yes 300k is very well off by all objective criteria, certainly compared to adelson
2) his dad made more, able to afford shit like this:
His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately.
proles cant afford programmers to tutor their kids in middle school in programming |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 8:41 PM Author: crimson associate Roman Abramovich - he was an f’ing orphan in some tiny shitty backwater Russian town and now he has billions and owns one of the most famous sports franchises in the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37599065) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:36 AM Author: Aromatic pit All of the Russian oligarchs are violent criminals (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600657) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 8:43 PM Author: diverse factory reset button Trump and it isn't close (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37599077) |
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Date: January 15th, 2019 8:48 PM Author: Cruel-hearted turdskin Bezos because he quit a high paying hedge fund job to start Amazon, beat a ton of well-financed incumbents and competitors over enormous odds and built one of the largest companies in the world that is in a ton of different businesses. An Amazon run by almost anyone else would have sold to Barnes and Noble for $300 million or crashed in flames like most other dot com firms. He is hugely impressive as a businessman. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37599107) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:23 AM Author: Irradiated Saffron Spot Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600631) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 2:11 AM Author: amethyst appetizing hell ape Lol yes a shitty online shopping site is totally comparable to introducing america to the Personal Computer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600736) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 2:23 AM Author: Cruel-hearted turdskin Gates and Jobs both stole the PC concept and it was inevitable anyways. The sheer scale and ambition of Amazon was only possible due to Bezo’s long term thinking and ability and willingness to invest in their delivery infrastructure. It is altering the US economy in a ton of ways. This also doesn’t even take into account his Blue Origin space business.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/tech/amazon-effect-us-economy/index.html |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 2:28 AM Author: Godawful Area Deer Antler Selling shit online wasn't a novel idea, not even in 1994.
There were books about about ecommerce before Amazon was even founded.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10108514-future-shop
If it wasn't Amazon, it would have been someone else.
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Date: January 16th, 2019 2:33 AM Author: Cruel-hearted turdskin Amazon accounts for 50 percent of all online retail and 5 percent of retail overall. It was far from preordained that one company would have this dominant of a position. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600779) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:03 AM Author: chestnut hall exactly.
pcs were definitely going to happen, there are competing gui operating systems even today. no one really expected a company as dominant as amazon, and it certainly wasn't inevitable. look at all the retail bankruptcies and dead malls which are a direct result of amazons dominance.
amazon might not be a huge technical achievement compared to microsoft, but it's a much more spectacular business achievement. microsoft, in a lot of ways, has floundered for years despite it's market dominance. aside from windows, office and xbox their products are not leaders despite microsoft having every advantage.
microsoft had it's lunch eaten by apple, facebook, netflix, amazon, good and many others despite having every possible advantage over them. how many companies have beaten amazon at anything? despite amazon having *way* more competitors than amazon since it's "just a shitty online store that a lot of people tried". |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:06 AM Author: bearded stubborn nibblets parlor While not a market leader, Microsoft's Azure is now a leading enterprise cloud platform. Number two after AWS.
Amazon did not succeed in the smart phone business. |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:16 AM Author: chestnut hall microsoft has no 2 and 3 products in lots of things.
surface?
social networks (MSN? so.cal?)
bing?
internet explorer and edge?
games for windows live (compared to steam)?
mobile OS?
my point is that in the 90s and early 2000s microsoft was the most dominant tech company, and despite having every advantage they were not able to capitalize on their position and failed to develop any market leading product (except, arguably xbox). |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 12:11 AM Author: Azure bull headed ceo pistol The Rock (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600372) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:29 AM Author: spruce titillating garrison Peterman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600644) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:37 AM Author: shaky background story sound barrier what (((%))) does that account for? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600660) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 1:43 AM Author: up-to-no-good skinny woman party of the first part I'd go with Gates because he actually built something useful. Amazon has mostly forcememed themselves into relevance by shutting everyone else out, and Zuckerberg is just winging it. But it's impressive how huge Microsoft got huge, crashed in public opinion, and then rescued themselves. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600676) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 2:48 AM Author: Bistre cocky office kitty cat I’ll go with Gates. Right now all these characters exude greed, except for him. And except for him they all have a charlatan sort of feel. I don’t think during his rise he ever gave off the feeling of greed, and definitely did not exude charlatan. The antitrust thing was sort of bogus. Plenty of people used Netscape and not IE, and big shock they packaged IE with each computer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600807) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 2:55 AM Author: bearded stubborn nibblets parlor For all of its ubiquity, the names of Google's founders never come up in conversations like these. My vote goes to Sergei and Larry. Created an actually useful website out of thin air. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600820) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:08 AM Author: Abnormal french den seriously. there is not one person with internet access who doesn't use google daily. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600854) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:09 AM Author: Floppy Clown i mean it was a good website but that seems like the definition of right place, right time. it was inevitable that someone would come up with a dominant search engine and they were there to do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600855) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 12:28 PM Author: supple deranged cruise ship sex offender ?? yeah someone would come up with a dominant search engine, and it was called yahoo (or alta vista if you were kind of punk rock and contrarian), and then DOGPILE changed the game completely because you can't get any better than an instant search of ALL the search engines!
these were heavily funded, heavily advertised, widely used behemoths. and google beat the fuck out of all of them by being clearly better.
then google maps did the same thing to mapquest which was hugely dominant and had even reached "verb" status. "hold on before we leave let me mapquest it real quick." |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 12:32 PM Author: Floppy Clown yeah and everyone knew those search engines were shit at the time so the market was ripe for a clearly better search tool.
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:10 AM Author: chestnut hall because the question is whose rise to wealth is most impressive, which implicitly is about overcoming shitty circumstances. larry and sergey's parents are mathematics professors. they were both best situated to develop a algorithm like google. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600859) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:13 AM Author: Abnormal french den lol at this logic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600871) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:19 AM Author: chestnut hall i mean, literally everyone else who has responded in the thread was able to divine the theme based on the title. reading comp mfe? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600879) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:44 AM Author: Abnormal french den is english your first language? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600907) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:07 AM Author: Abnormal french den one of these is not like the others. fuckerberg created a social media website. how is this impressive? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600853) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:23 AM Author: Clear tanning salon sweet tailpipe Jack Ma, the Alibaba guy has a 100 times better story than any faggot like Gates (dad was lawyer) or Zuckerberg (fucking joo overlord)
Ma literally taught himself english talking to fuking tourists in nowagistan |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 4:23 AM Author: Unholy scarlet toilet seat mfcr the nowag who copied amazon is 100x more impressive than anyone else on this list (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600953) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 12:24 PM Author: iridescent business firm Alibaba isn't a copy, it connects factories and wholesalers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37602400) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 3:45 AM Author: Godawful Area Deer Antler MacKenzie Bezos (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600910) |
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Date: January 16th, 2019 4:27 AM Author: chrome headpube Short quotemo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4178352&forum_id=2#37600956) |