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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prestige is a great substitute for talent. Ask me how I know [/quote]
 
Sure. But prestige + talent is killer.  Those who get in RD unhooked 3% acceptance rates [/quote]

The question was about future success.[/quote]

That's what I'm talking about.  The kids that are naturally very smart AND hard workers.  They got in on their own moxy and hard work---not a hook, not early, etc.  Those types have a lot of future success as they keep working.  [/quote]

Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Clinton, Obama where prestige met talent.  Didn't come from privilege. Attended prestigious university, worked hard.[/quote]
Are we seriously claiming that Zuckerberg and Obama didn’t come from privilege? Zuckerberg graduated from the best boarding school in America?[/quote]
+1 Gates went to one of the most well known private schools on the west coast and had a wealthy background. Bezos is the son of an heiress and his family “gifted” him $300k to start his company. It is shameful and near propaganda to put these people anywhere close to Clinton’s name.[/quote]

Bezos mom was a teen mom that got pregnant at 16, his dad was a alcoholic unicyclist.
They divorced when jeff was 1.
She almost didn't graduate high school.
She moved out of her parent's house and she worked her way through night school (bringing jeff to class with her).  Her parents were middle class maybe upper middle class.
It took her 20 years to graduate from college.

His mom remarried cuban refugee named Mike Bezos who adopted jeff.
They didn't "gift" Bezos anything.  
They were initial investors in amazon, investing $245,573 for 6% of Amazon.
She's not an heirress.  She is billionaire because she bet on her son.[/quote]

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