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TopicRipple cofounder becomes the richest person in the world thanks to crytocurrency
Paper_Okami
01/04/18 2:15:47 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Intro2Logic posted...
Richest people in the world:
The guy who made the program all our PCs run on
The guy who made the place we all buy everything from
The guy who, uh...what does Ripple do?


American entrepreneur who came from the middle class (Gates)
American entrepreneur who came from the middle class (Bezos)
American entrepreneur who came from the middle class (Larsen)
American entrepreneur who came from the middle class (Zuckerberg)

Everyone else at the top is either an oil baron or a banker. It's almost like nobody else in the world is even trying. Thanks socialism.


You realize them being middle (upper middle) class gives them a huge leg up?

Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Jacklyn (ne Gise) and Ted Jorgensen. His father, Theodore John Jorgensen, was born in Chicago.[15] His maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas and over the generations acquired a 25,000-acre (101 km2 or 39 miles2) ranch near Cotulla. As of March 2015, Bezos was among the largest landholders in Texas.

that doesn't sound like middle class

Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. He is the son of William H. Gates Sr.[b] (b. 1925) and Mary Maxwell Gates (19291994). His ancestry includes English, German, Irish, and Scots-Irish.[17][18] His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates's maternal grandfather was JW Maxwell, a national bank president.

the doesn't sound like middle class either
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