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Every business ever built was the sole work product of a single person who owned the company. Nobody has ever benefited from stable financial markets, a readily available highly educated workforce and the publicly funded technological infrastructure put in place by the society at large. Public airwaves, DARPA, NASA, fire departments, the most reliable national currency that has ever existed, roads, bridges, air traffic control systems... All of that stuff doesn't matter a lick. When a man has a name plate on his desk that says CEO you can be sure he is solely responsible for every success of his life. Good fortune,, inheritence, a public school system, permissive immigration policy toward his ancestors - that's all just a thin layer of icing on the cake of his enormous, comprehensive intellect and desire to make something of himself.
Just ask warren buffet, jack welch, bill gates and the dozens of other people who have become wildly successful CEOs. They will quickly thank the team they work with, the luck they have had and the timing that made it all possible. Nobody of note ever built a meaningful business in complete isolation from the world around them. The moment you pick up a telephone, get an idea from your television, recall a lesson from your education or hire anyone else, the interactive web of elements tat go ino a successful venture expands exponentially.
Saying Mike Bloomberg 'did it all on his own' is as overly simplistic and wrong as saying 'he just got really lucky.'
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