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Professor JP Eggers discusses the similarities and difference between young billionaires and seasoned business leaders

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Excerpt from Forbes Poland -- "In some ways, there isn’t much difference. They are both comprised of smart, ambitious, and success-driven leaders who have (at some point) stepped beyond just running a company to attempt to influence how society works. The biggest difference is probably in terms of age and, therefore, perspective. Many of the young people on the current list became incredibly wealthy at a pretty young age, which gives them the opportunity to still be more idealistic than those who typically succeed after decades of trying and running a business. So they exhibit more naivety, but also more idealism, in many cases."

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