There are also plenty of examples of folks coming from nothing as well. Ray Kroc [1] worked a variety of odd jobs, his final one was a door to door milkshake mi

There are also plenty of examples of folks coming from nothing as well. Ray Kroc [1] worked a variety of odd jobs, his final one was a door to door milkshake mixer salesman before discovering/founding McDonalds, at 52. Looking at the most successful, it seems like the greatest common denominator is simply having a very good/novel idea, and generally also a silver tongue. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc