I am richer than my opponent

First Rebuttal Round --------------------------------------------------------------------------------1st Contention: story is unlikely to be true ; story has too many similarities ; Sounds a lot like my story in a way.-happens to be born in New York City;where I was born-happens to have his own “Reece Pole”; Friend who speaks Mandarin-attended some school that he fails to mention and drop out of this school to amass billions of dollars1st Rebuttal: The basis of my opponents contention is that our life stories harbor too many similarities to be true, in crude terms what he has implied is that i've simply copied his outline with some simple changes. In order to successfully refute the examples used by my opponent. I will respond to them individually, starting with the coincidence of us both being born in New York. By visiting the following site(data from 2013): (http://www.businessinsider.com...)[1] You will see that there have been more billionaires born in New York(52) than there have been in ANY other place. The runner up to New York is in fact Moscow, Russia(22) followed by London(21). Lawrence and I's place of origin is the most likely place for a couple of young savy billionaires to be born. Next off I'd like to visit the 'He has his own Reece Pole' Example This is yet another, misguided similarity which serves no relevance. Here's a quote by Bill Gates: Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company’s ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.” – Bill GatesAnd along with, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Evan Spiegal and other well known billionaires.collaboration, and teamwork are essential parts of a products development. It would be entirely unusual for there to be a creator who credits exclusively himself. So again, I'd like to say that this is not uncommon or unique. It would be very unlikely and less believable if I had claimed to be single handedly responsible for all the construction and coding of my ideas. Now to move on to the last example. I dropped out of University and went on to make billions. Yes, I have this in common with Lawrence. this is a huge trend among billionaires, I briefly attended the University of Melbourne, Australia but I dropped out after 1 semester. I knew that I had enough talent and skill to pursue my own ideas without wasting time, and thank god I did. For anyone who is skeptical about this let me tell you about some other Billionaire university drop outs. -Bill Gates-Thomas Edison -Michael Dell -Steve Jobs-Henry Ford-Walt Disney -Simon Cowell -Andrew Carneige-Mark Zuckerberg -Ted Turner -Giorgio Armani -Lawrence Fischer-Doug Felix (http://www.mytopbusinessideas.com...)[2] AMONG MANY OTHERS, these are just some of the names of the most famous. Now what do they all have in common? Well as my opponent likes to put it: 'drops out of this school to amass billions of dollars is my thing' Among young, successful entrepreneurs dropping out of school seems to be a requisite to amassing billions of dollars. 2nd Rebuttal. In his second contetnion against my story, I would like to clarify some of the misunderstandings that might have been percieved. My father didn't have a business mindset, he had a strong business like philosophy, when he drilled this into us, that translated as a business mindset to me. The presents that my father gave us all those years ago on christmas where not bad presents. It was simply the wrapping paper and boxes that were being ruined in the storm. Also, my Grandpa is not worth 7 billion dollars. I do not know where you pulled this number from, as 100million does not equate to 1 billion. I really do hope you know this, Lawrence. 3rd Rebuttal. In regards to the Chinese blog that was sold for 2.5million dollars. I cannot for obvious reasons disclose which website this is. You are of course welcome to search the web for it, although I don't think you'll find it seeing as it's primarily in Chinese. I will however, offer my opponent and voters, a link to a list of blog sites that have sold for multi-million dollars: (http://www.incomediary.com...)[3]These blogs have been about anything ranging from using technology in nature, to cooking, to book blogs and also blogs about your garden! Yes a blog site about garden sold for multi million dollars. Is it so hard to believe that a travel blog in China could never be worth 2.5million dollars? I don't think that is unreasonable at all and neither should anyone reading this. 4th Rebuttal. My opponent argues that because I have claimed a lesser sum of money, I should instantly lose this debate. Sure, however my opponents story himself is far less believable. So it is up to the voter to decide if my 2.9billion(+700m) are as skeptical as his 3.3 billion. Seeing as how he claims to have made his money off of a fortune that would have instantly been frozen by the FBI. 5th Rebuttal. If my opponent doesn't want to consider a broader definition of rich, that is OK and it is his call. I ask that voters respect this. Good luck in your final round! Lawrence, Sources: [1]http://www.businessinsider.com...[2]http://www.mytopbusinessideas.com...[3]http://www.incomediary.com...