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Comment by EForEndeavour

I legitimately can't tell if this is satire, particularly the "self-made" part.

Bezos' parents loaned him a quarter-million dollars in 1995 [1].

Gates' mother, while on the board of directors of United Way, convinced IBM to invest in MS in 1980 [2].

Zuckerberg's parents sent him to the crazy selective and expensive boarding school Philips Exeter Academy and was privately tutored in comp sci before college [3].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/how-jeff-bezos-got-his-paren...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/mary-gates-64-...

[3] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-fa...

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