Her father owns the first climate controlled storage facility in SLC, and their family looks like it inherited a home from someone's grandparents. It's been paid off for over a decade.

At 11 her family went on a sabbatical in France, long enough for her to learn French. https://twitter.com/BloombergTV/status/1359951068520718338

A year before she founded her app she met her husband, an oil heir, on an aspen ski trip that she took while not employed.

I have no idea what the media's fascination is with pretending that rich people getting much richer is like this super inspirational story.

She's basically like every other silicon valley billionaire in upbringing save the parent with an engineering/math phd, she came from well off parents who had a load of autonomy and assets, and her great grandfather owned a regional chain of sporting goods stores lol.

And tbh, the engineering/math phd is going to die out over time because the first wave of billionaires had to understand how computers and eventually the internet work, the next wave of silicon valley billionaires are all just going to have marketing/managerial/owner parents.

Here's the billionaire thread where I go through the first couple of waves of silicon valley billionaires: https://twitter.com/mugrimm/status/1102985476829560832?s=20