Quote from: mk4 on Today at 06:05:28 AM

Quote from: GigaBit on January 26, 2024, 09:22:17 PM

In the race to become the richest in the world in the future, only businessman can not get that place. In addition to being a big business owner, one must hold bitcoins. Do you agree with the statement?

A person doesn't necessarily need to be an investor in a certain asset(besides shares in their own company) to be the richest in the world. While having Bitcoin would've helped, these people became on top mainly because they created something huge.

To help GigaBit understand the last statement of mk4, below are some of the "huge things" created by the "so-called bitcoin billionaires before they became bitcoin billionaires. In fact it was this companies they founded and products they created pre-bitcoin that helped to invest and accumulate so much bitcoin.
Michael Saylor: Michael Saylor founded business analytics software firm MicroStrategy in 1989.

Tyler Winklevoss & Cameron Winklevoss: The former Olympic rowers are best known for accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for a social network. They used some of their $65 million legal settlement with the Facebook CEO to start stockpiling Bitcoin.

Jack Dorsey: Dorsey cofounded Twitter in 2006 with Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass, and was CEO until 2008. He returned in 2015.

Changpeng Zhao (CZ): The Chinese-Canadian coder cut his teeth building high-frequency trading systems for Wall Street's flash boys.
Zhao founded Binance in July 2017, raising $15 million through an initial coin offering.

Brian Armstrong: A former Airbnb software engineer, Armstrong cofounded Coinbase in San Francisco in 2012 with former currency trader Fred Ehrsam.

Jed McCaleb: Before entering crypto, McCaleb created the file-sharing service eDonkey2000