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ahartmetztoday at 12:28 PM3 repliesview on HN

Yup. Billionaire - doable without too much ethical compromise (e.g early Google). The thing is that a billion isn't much per "first world" citizen if that is roughly your market. Many-many-billionaire - would need some good example, I can only think of bad ones. The SAP guys maybe? But they aren't exactly the richest. The only bad things I've heard about SAP are "making clunky software" and "charging too much money".


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hilariouslytoday at 1:20 PM

Early Google got that money because of the eventual market capture and implied evil they would definitely do because they are an american advertising company.

brianwawoktoday at 1:37 PM

The first billionaire I followed was gates. He did pretty horrible rent extraction to businesses all over the world. See monopoly trials and other similar things that didn’t go to trial.

inigyoutoday at 2:06 PM

One billion is huge for a citizen, are you sure you don't mean one million?

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