You're going to use an example that can be explained almost exclusively by luck and having a creative personality.
You want to know about how many equally creative entrepreneurs have failed?
As with any productive human endeavor, the Pareto principle applies. More than 90% of them fail miserably.
Jeff Bezos, like people who make it as artists, got lucky, he was creative, so he came up with a new idea, and he was at the right place at the right time.
He was first. He started making a little money, then more, then more, until he became the behemoth that we know today.
A creative personality, luck and from what I've gathered, he's also very disagreeable and gives no fucks about other people's feelings:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/retail...-horrible-boss-and-is-that-good/#2c129e52645f
He beat the odds despite a relatively mediocre family situation. Of course humans can be the odds, some people win the lottery, which is more or less what happened to Jeff Bezos.
Personally, I'm not very creative, it's just not built into me, I don't have revolutionary ideas lying in my brain.
I'm someone who is introverted, who works hard, who needs to be in a collaborative environment (since I'm a very agreeable person) and inside a pre-determined hierarchy of competence. I wish it could be different but I'm never going to be able to alter my core personality.
So, now that we've established why I'm not like Jeff Bezos and why I will never become a billionaire entrepreneur, let's analyse my current financial situation:
You think I barely make ends meet? With what I have on my savings' account I must be roughly in the top 10% in my country. And yes, I'm 27, I've been living with my parents, and I'm going to move in in my girlfriend's apartment in a few months.
All I've done in my life, that fact that I got through some extremely rough patches (hair loss, depression, anxiety, psychiatry)... I can humbly say that I wouldn't have gotten through without the support of my parents, who stuck together no matter what.
Sure, I'm not a ruthless billionaire genius, but I do what I can with what I've been given. I sense a lot of bitterness in your post, do you want to believe that I'm doing horrible in life for some reason? I am not, not by any stretch of the imagination. Quite the contrary.
How are you doing in life? I'm curious.