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Gates is not a good example. He was given every hand up known to elites and wasn't exactly a vagrant living under a bridge at the start of his 'rise'. And I don't think that he is a good businessman. I don't know if any of them are tbh.

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actually if u look american "entrepreneurs", alot of them had lobbied in congress, shady businesses, or huge financial / political backing. Walt disney was famous for changing the way ip laws worked back in 1950 when the patent for mickey mouse was over. because of him, there is very little innovation and limited use for majority of animation characters.

Jeff bezos, got a huge loan from his parents back when his business was dying after the dotcom crash, bill gates had his mother in the bod for ibm to help him get the contracts after copying off mac and majority of his early projects were actually outsourced work and not even original microsoft. nikola tesla died with poverty despite creating the electrical standards (ac current) that we use today while his competitor edison (supported dc current) went on to be rich and founded GE company which still exist today despite losing the current war.

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Them = establishment.

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