Tech luminaries are often drawn from the ranks of the already affluent. Mark Zuckerberg was the son of an upper-middle-class dentist. Bill Gates was technically a millionaire before he even started Microsoft in 1975. Larry Page's parents were both professors; Sergey Brin's father was a professor and his mother was a NASA researcher.
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