What would Zuckerberg be now if he weren't a billionaire?"

"The likes of Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and the half-man, half-goat that is Richard Branson are venerated as some sort of latter-day saints. Yet, when you look closely at each of them, you see a very strange group of individuals who, if you met them under any other circumstance, you'd assume were sociopaths.

What's more, almost without exception, they are not genius inventors or sophisticated business strategists, but just a bunch of lucky punters who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Sure, they love to tell their rags-to-riches story, but tend to skip the bit where they received a lot of help from wealthy parents or sheer dumb luck. Most simply placed their chips on red on the business roulette wheel when thousands of other less lucky entrepreneurs went all in on black. And, so, we never hear about them.

For every Bezos, there are a dozen bankrupts that never made the cover of Forbes. In fact, without daddy's millions or a ton of good fortune, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg might now be working at your local supermarket, scanning groceries and wishing you a nice day. And no one would be giving them a second thought. As the old joke goes, what would Zuckerberg be now if he weren't a billionaire?"

"A virgin?" replied George, chuckling to himself.