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I was wondering about this the other week.

Is there a chart, somewhere, like a family tree, of what the Apple and Microsoft stock "ordinary millionaires" went on to do?




Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington of early-ish Microsoft went on to found and fund Valve.


Yeah — actually if you google there are a few "where are they now?" things. A few VCs etc.


we need more non tech women to marry and divorce craven tech men so that at least half of these scrooge like fortunes can get donated

edit: id love to tally all the donations done by techies and compare them to how much of bezos fortune has ended up routed to charity via his ex


If you're a tech billionaire, you don't marry unless you are incredibly stupid.

Altman and Thiel are also gay, so theres that too.


No idea where this comes from; I wasn't talking about a literal family tree but a figurative one (I grew up with Rock Family Trees)

Also: Altman is married.


i think i was trying to make the point that the type of person to make a shitload of money tends to be the type of person to hold onto a shitload of money


... Being gay does not limit altman or theil from getting married...

And last I checked, plenty of tech billionaires are married and by no stretch of the imagination stupid.




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