@DeezyAZ81
Warren Buffett is an investor. Not in the sense of a VC. He plays the market. And he's one of the sharpest investors of all time but let's not act like he's starting with hotdog carts and building multibillion dollar fastfood empires or some shit like that. He isn't building anything. And make no mistake about it, guys like him get rich off poor guys who can't afford to HODL. Buy low, sell high, right? What do you think happens to the poor schmucks that buy high and sell low? There's a special circle in the inferno for guys like Buffett. You seem to think he's the bee's knees though.
Bill Gates got rich off stealing and the idea for a graphics interface based operating system from Apple (who semi-stole it from Xerox). He then takes his operating system based on a stolen Apple design (has the nerve to call it "windows") and proceeds to monopolize the personal computer market. Monopolies are bad. The stories of the other guys, the guys who have their hopes, dreams, and life savings dashed because of said monopolies are lost because they don't make for good fairytales. So their stories, which could serve as perspective, and even cautionary tale, are vanquiished so that we may worship a guy like Bill Gates. I don't have a problem with Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. Just calling a spade a spade.
Jeff Bezos went from selling used to books to his site being a kind of third party marketplace a lá EBAY without the bidding, to being essentially one of the worlds biggest drop shipper, to saying, "Well, i'm drop shipping so much, I need to start building warehouses and actually stocking some of this crap, to essentially being the richest man in the world, depending on day, by selling cheaply made Chinese crap, putting mom & pop stores out of business, and working his employees like endentured servents. Oh, and there's the partnering with the government to track an analyze literally every single piece of personal data about you... me... tox etc, that is accessible via the world wide web and/or any electronic device, of which the latter two are both guilty. Then there's the storage of said data/info.
These are all crooked men you speak of. Elon's tits in my book. Love the guy. Love Larry Ellison. Self made man from humble beginnings. Respected Steve Jobs. Not so much a coder but a visionary. All of their hands are dirty though. You don't get to that point with out dirty hands and a dirty conscience.
As far as Trump, he's a developer and a brander. He's not some business svengali, he has failed miserably many times, but he took his last name and made it a brand. And as much as people like to point to whatever headstarts he may have been given, building that brand was all him. As far as his debr, well his main business is real estate development. Residential, office, hospitality. If one is going to build, say, an office building, a golf course, whatever, one doesn't do it out of pocket. Yoi take on investors. You take out loans. You incur debt. It is what it is. It's the nature of the business. Not everyone can get rich off buying, i don't know, phone chargers... fidget spinners, whatever, from some sweatshop in China for a few pennies only to turn around and sell it for a few dollars.
No Trump has never been in the clear for a billion ever. Again, his followers believe anything he says though. 
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