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Most of those people started out as perfectly normal people. It's the unchecked power that makes people go gaga.
No most did not start out like normal people, By far the most billionaires grew up very privileged. Not just privileged as in not being poor, or not being a minority. But really really privileged.
These people generally grew up in an environment of entitlement, that is way beyond normal people. They think they are entitled to be privileged, and they think they deserve their privileges because they work so haaarrddd and are so brilliant with money because everything is paid for by their parents, and they were never short of money.
Bill Gates, his mother was on the board of IBM.
Elon Musk. His father owned an emerald mine in South Africa.
Donald Trump inherited a fortune, and was given a million dollars just to start on and learn the ropes.
Common in almost all billionaire stories is that they never had to work for anybody, and they never had to worry about economical consequences of their actions.
There are some exceptions to this though, so it doesn’t explain everything.
Who?
I was initially thinking of some of the shark tank guys who like to tell their rags to riches stories. Like Daymond John or Robert Herjavec. But a quick search tells me they are not actually billionaires.