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Which is why top companies are founded by children of lottery winners and media celebrities, while poor immigrants never achieve anything significant.


Founding a top company is the most visible way of gaining a lot of wealth, but it is by far not representative.

Much more common are ways of starting with a lot of wealth and turning it into even more wealth.


This is exactly the kind of information that will NOT be welcome at Hacker News.


Even according to a source that wants to agree with you, 57% of Forbes 400 started with less than $1 million: http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ufe/legacy_url/410/Born....




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