# How does someone with no business acumen get to be the richest person in the world?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 14, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-someone-with-no-business-acumen-get-to-be-the-richest-person-in-the-world/974903 "2022-11-14T19:46:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-someone-with-no-business-acumen-get-to-be-the-richest-person-in-the-world/974903/113 "2022-11-18T12:37:22Z")

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> [@Napier](#):
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> A fool and his $44,000,000,000 are soon parted.
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> Speaking of SpaceX, I betcha the quickest path to a small fortune in rocketry is a big fortune.

“How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one.”  
[https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/media/twitter-exodus-reliable-sources/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/media/twitter-exodus-reliable-sources/index.html)

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