the following post is old, but a hacker news poster in 2010 did the research on the constituents of the forbes list, and it seems that there aren&#x27;t too many startup founders featured there:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1444212" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1444212</a>