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To: i-node who wrote (31889)8/30/2017 11:15:02 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361498
 
"Seriously. Can you name anyone who created a large number of jobs without first being wealthy?"

Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Hewlett and Packard. Harley and the Davidsons. First they created jobs, then they got wealthy.


Hewlett-Packard's first product, built in the garage, was an audio oscillator, the HP200A. [8]
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To: i-node who wrote (31889)8/31/2017 12:34:33 AM
From: Smart_Asset  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361498
 
<<Seriously. Can you name anyone who created a large number of jobs without first being wealthy?>>

Tesla, Edison, Tim Berners-Lee, Eli Whitney, James Watt, Gutenberg, Faraday, Westinghouse, Edwin Land, Fulton, FDR, and many many others.