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Regarding the point about his good fortune of being born in 1835, I wonder what the date is for new tech billionaire CEOs. The article made me wonder if we are
by jaredklewis 9y ago
Regarding the point about his good fortune of being born in 1835, I wonder what the date is for new tech billionaire CEOs. The article made me wonder if we are in our own little gilded age now.
Mark Zuckerberg: 1984
Larry Page: 1973
Sergey Brin: 1973
Elon Musk: 1971
Michael Dell: 1965
Jeff Bezos: 1964
Jack Ma: 1964
Masayoshi Son: 1957
Steven Ballmer: 1956
Bill Gates: 1955
Steve Jobs: 1955
Paul Allen: 1953
Larry Ellison: 1944
The median of this list (which I compiled with no particular methodology or criteria) is 1964. The mean is 1962.
- champagnepapi 9y ago1993. I know because that's the year I was born in! Lol
- Radle 9y agoMost people take the better part of their lives to get rich. Thus if you only examine people who are alive you will naturally only find people who are quite old.
- tossaway1 9y agoMaybe you're already aware of this but being in a gilded age would not be a good thing. The gilded age described a society where serious problems were masked by a thin veneer of gold.
- gotrecruit 9y agomaybe OP meant the greek Golden Age, rather than Twain's Gilded Age.
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- jaredklewis 9y agoI've never read the book, but am aware it is a satire. Given your description, I think my word choice turned out to be apropos. Though perhaps "thin veneer of gold" should be modernized to "tacky stucco facade" or "parallax hero background."
- egypturnash 9y agoHave you looked at photos of anything owned by Trump lately.
- tw1010 9y agoThis is part of Malcolm Gladwell's thesis in Outliers, are you sure this is your idea?
- Dirlewanger 9y agoSadly, this Gilded Age won't end with the government breaking up all the tech giants, only continuously enabling them.
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