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Musk: Rich father, emerald mine money? Arnault: "In 1971, he graduated from the École Polytechnique, France's leading engineering school, and began work for his father's company. Three years later, after he convinced his father to shift the focus of the company to real estate" Gates: "His father was a prominent lawyer" "At age 13, he enrolled in the private Lakeside prep school, where he wrote his first software program" "Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen first met as teenagers in the late 1960s at Lakeside School in Seattle" Zuckerberg: "My dad, funny enough, right before each of us went to college offered us the options of going to college or like investing in a franchise and running it,” sister Randi Zuckerberg told CNN Business’ Laurie Segall of her dad’s offer to his son and each of his three daughters. They may not have literally handed their kids a sack full of money, but you can't argue that people like Arnault, Gates, Zuckerberg are not largely where they are today due to their parents wealth. |
Gates grandfather was president of a bank. Gates left his prep school for Harvard with a million dollar trust fund. His mother was on a board with the chairman of IBM which helped launch Microsoft into the big time.
Buffett's father was a congressman. His grandparents owned a chain of grocery stores.
Zuckerberg's high school was Phillips Exeter Academy. Currently tuition is over $50,000 a year - for high school.