Surely there should be at least a passing mention of Carlos Slim in here? Or maybe he just doesn't influence NYT?http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/business/media/behind-the-scenes-billionaires-growing-control-of-news.html?_r=0&referer=http://apple.com/spotlight-suggestion …
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The most intriguingly mistaken sentence is "But billionaires do not become billionaires by being passive about their own interests."
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As we've observed, the most successful startup founders are usually the ones who are not doing it for the money.
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So in startups at least, it's closer to the truth to say that the way to become a billionaire is to be passive about your interests.
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Also, it doesn't fit the historical pattern. In the past to get rich you had to mean to get rich.
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I don't know. I think some Renaissance artists got rich just by wanting to be the best artist in town.
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Good point. But they weren't the billionaires of their time, just upper middle class.
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