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Bezos, Bill Gates Really 'Self-Made'? This Viral Twitter Thread Debunks the Myths

Bill Gates is known as someone who dropped out of college. But did you know his mother convinced IBM to hire Microsoft?

When people use the 'self-made' tag, it's usually associated with people who built their way up with almost none or minimal wealth to start, and is usually associated with the other richest people in the world - Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates. We've all their viral 'origin' stories, of how they started their companies in garages and it then grew from small businesses to the world-dominators they are today. But were these companies really self made?

A week or so ago, a journalist tweeted about how Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage, in 1994.