Comment by bestcoder69

Hm on the one hand we have survivorship bias, plus the fact that capital accumulates more capital near-automatically at some point, as well as his relative lack of qualms with committing fraud (that he's gotten lucky about going un/under-punished).

But on the other hand, he built some impressive companies, he is the richest person in the world, and he has a lot of gumption, y'know?