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by rollo_tommasi 4815 days ago
Right, but he didn't jump right into future-tech industries; he had a huge pool of personal capital to draw on, and only himself to answer to in using it. The point the parent is trying to make is that there are probably a lot of people working in less glamorous businesses who would love to jump to working on the cutting-edge, but they don't have access to hundreds of millions in personal funds.
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I would argue that paypal was the future tech of its time. It was in 1998 that paypal launched.