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I wonder how you'd classify Kylie Jenner. On one hand, she's inherited the Jenner name and I'm sure wealth, however my understanding is she works quite hard and
by neom 3y ago
I wonder how you'd classify Kylie Jenner. On one hand, she's inherited the Jenner name and I'm sure wealth, however my understanding is she works quite hard and has earned a lot of her own money.
- gardenhedge 3y agoShe founded her company from the money she got given from TV work. She was given the money, the brand and the audience. She could have gotten rich(er) selling flavored bubble gum.
- Cheer2171 3y agoThere is no way Jenner would have been in a position to apply that hard work to such a profit without the inheritance. The myth of America is that anyone can be a billionaire, if they are talented and put in the work. This is not true.
- ironSkillet 3y agoBillionaire? You're exaggerating.
- paxys 3y agoSelf made doesn't have to mean being an orphan and starting with $0. Zuckerberg and Gates for example had more support and opportunity than 99.9999% of the planet (Harvard education, wealthy parents, access to computers, strong network), yet they clearly deserve full credit for their achievements. Kylie Jenner is no different. There are plenty of celebrity kids out there, but none who founded a cosmetics company that was valued at $1.2 billion.
- Solvency 3y agoDamn they spoon fed you this narrative and you ate it right up.
- nbvkappowqpeop 3y agoI was quite surprised by OP's comment too. Seems like media does work..
- neom 3y agoI just think there is a much more interesting conversation to be had is all, yah no shit everyone under 30 who has a billion bucks got it from their family, that's a very boring conversation to have, I thought mine was a bit more intellectually curious, nothing more than that really. :)
- paxys 3y agoI'd say she qualifies as self made, but her current net worth is estimated to be $680 million.
- dangus 3y agoShe absolutely does not qualify as self-made. Don't get me wrong, building a sustainable beauty brand on is no small feat. However, her family name alone is like inheriting a gigantic free marketing budget. Remember that things that aren't money can have a lot of value, like followers and viewers. Let's say right now I figured out how to produce the greatest beauty products in the world. They beat all competitors by a significant margin and cost less. They're available on my website right now. How much money would I have to spend in order to start from zero and sell a few million units? It would definitely cost me thousands if not millions to start a national advertising campaign. Kylie didn't have to spend anywhere near as much as other equivalent companies to build its sales.
- paxys 3y agoSo by that logic can anyone who is not a homeless orphan with nothing to their name be self made? Even then, they'd probably get disqualified if a passer by took pity on them and bought them a free meal.
- dpig_ 3y agoWell no because my having received a free meal isn't something I can leverage into considerable loans or investor interest. Additionally, well, yes - 'self made' is a myth when our societies and economies are a network. Nothing occurs in a vacuum.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThere is a pretty broad spectrum that encompasses almost every human alive between homeless orphan and Jenner
- paxys 3y ago
- cko 3y agoSelena Gomez is supposedly worth more due to ownership in her own makeup line, though she is older.
- c_o_n_v_e_x 3y agoIf Kylie or any other Jenner were a business for sale, the Jenner name (brand) alone carries significant value as an intangible asset.