You'll note that neither Bill Gates nor Warren Buffet is among the 20. That particular statement may be wrong -- but it's actually unrelated to the thrust of t

You'll note that neither Bill Gates nor Warren Buffet is among the 20. That particular statement may be wrong -- but it's actually unrelated to the thrust of the article. In fact with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet the author was giving examples of people who did not start with nothing. (The rest of the sentence you half-quoted: "but they were raised in affluent homes so they didn't have to worry about keeping their families fed.")