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THE greatest fortunes in California's first gold rush were made by the likes of Leland Stanford and Collis P Huntington, shopkeepers who sold the miners their shovels. The pair of Sacramento outfitters went on to become two of the Big Four investors in the Central Pacific Railroad, America's first transcontinental railroad, and respectively built the best university and the finest library in the State.
In the more recent digital gold rush, plenty of entrepreneurs have struck pay dirt once, or even a number of times. A few, like Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs and the Googlers Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are still holding on to their vast fortunes. But for examples of consistent money-making on a huge scale in Silicon Valley, you're better off looking, once again, to the suppliers.See the full content of this document
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Backroom Boys Who Struck Gold [Edition 2]
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