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The $6.8 Billion Man: WhatsApp CEO’s Path from Poverty to Riches

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Tech luminaries are often drawn from the ranks of the already affluentMark Zuckerberg was the son of an upper-middle-class dentist. Bill Gates was technically a millionaire before he even started Microsoft in 1975. Larry Page’s parents were both professors; Sergey Brin’s father was a professor and his mother was a NASA researcher.

Yet occasionally, actual rags to riches stories emerge. Biz Stone, a Twitter cofounder, was raised on food stamps and received bowl haircuts from his mother to save money. Christian Gheorghe, now the CEO of Tidemark, came to the U.S. from Romania without speaking a word of English and initially found work as a limo driver Read more…

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