August 3, 2001
Rich Men, Poor Men, Businessmen, and Scholars
The market collapse in the technology sector has gouged the net worth of several dot-com moguls, and knocked them off their pedestals, but that hasn't altered the fundamental reality: The tech-driven economy has made a lot of people fantastically rich in an incredibly short period of time. It took John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie decades to become billionaires. Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, Meg Whitman of eBay, and Steve Case of America Online all did it in fewer than
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