10/27   "40 Under 40 - Business's hottest rising stars"
        http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/40under40/2009
        I'm 39 and a code monkey making $120K/yr.  This article makes me very
        depressed.
        \_ Are any of these not born to millionaire parents?
           \_ where can I get stats on their parents' income? I can't seem
              to find that information on Wolfram Alpha
           \_ Was Tiger Woods' dad a millionaire? Also, Sergey Brin's bio
              said his parents were a professor and a scientist while Larry
              Page's parents are both CS professors.
              \_ rising stars usually get much more help from a nice family
                 than those that came from the slums. Do you think Bill Gates
                 was born in the slums? Hell no, his family was pretty well
                 off already and that gave him a lot of freedom to do what
                 he loved doing instead of trying to work at a stinky
                 $120k/year job that can barely support a family in
                 Silicon Valley.
                 \_ Bill Gates was a trust fund kiddie. So was Donald Trump.
                    I would argue that Larry&Sergey and Tiger (certainly)
                    were not. If you hate your job and your salary then
                    do something about it. Go to medical school or go get
                    an MBA and work for Goldman Sachs or get good at golf.
                    Things could be a lot worse than making $120K before
                    age 40. That's in the top 10% of incomes. $160K puts
                    you in the top 5%.
                    \_ Maybe not trust fund kiddies, but still started on
                       second base. You are telling me that a bunch of
                       kids who were raised in upper middle class families
                       and went to Stanfurd are underprivileged? You have
                       a very distorted view of the real world.
                       \_ Did I say underprivileged? More like middle
                          class, which is a far cry from being born to
                          millionaire parents.
                          \_ Two college profeesors are either millionaires
                             or really bad with their money. I am sure they
                             consider themselves "middle class" just like
                             most millionaires, but they are clearly quite
                             privileged. The best way to be succesful
                             in America is to be born to money.
                             \_ but most wealth disappears by the 3rd
                                generation! Why do you hate rich
                                people?                         -Republican
                                \_ I don't hate them, I just recognize that
                                   if I had been given that level of
                                   opportunity, I might be there, too. I don't
                                   beat myself up for not being in newsweek.
                                   Considering how I have done so far, I still
                                   might make it by the time I am 50 or
                                   something.
              \_ 2 X CS profs = what, $1/4M/yr in annual income? Maybe they
                 are "only" single digit millionaries. Evan Williams is
                 probably from modest means (though still solidly middle
                 class).