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	Billionaires Who Weren't

Andrew Farrell

9-30-2008 9:35 AM

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Andrew Farrell says:

With all the Web titans on our list of the world's billionaires, it's tempting to think that any intelligent person with a decent tech idea in the late 90s became fabulously rich.

Definitely not the case. For every billion-dollar success there were plenty of eToys and Pets.com.

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