After all, according to this year's Sunday Times Rich List, his businessman father Michael is worth 拢620m, wealth that formed the mainstay of Tabor's successful bid to set up a company that now owns almost 40% of the UK's commercial radio industry, including iconic brands such as Capital, Heart, Galaxy, LBC and Classic FM.
Few will know how it feels to walk into an institution such as Capital Radio on London's Leicester Square as the owner having once been a humble, unpaid runner there as a teenager.
But therein lies the rub. For no matter how well 30-year-old Tabor eventually does running his newly formed radio conglomerate, he will always be open to jealous accusations that he is nothing more than a caretaker who has been given a very expensive toy to play with by his rich father.
If he succeeds, the doubters will say it's all down to his father's money. If he fails, it will be proof positive he was just a boy doing a man's job. There have already been mumblings that soon-to-arrive radio chief executive Stephen Miron is only being brought in from Associated at the behest of Tabor Senior's business associates, who fear "the boy" is out of his depth.
That is patently unfair, however. As this week's profile of Tabor shows (see page 14), the former pop music manager and publisher has a genuine and longstanding passion for radio - and a clear vision of what he wants to achieve.
Tough decisions have already been made and acted upon. More will follow. That is inevitable when two similar businesses are brought together and taken into private ownership out of the harsh glare of the City.
Tabor has situated his office in the middle of his sales team, in sight of the recording studios. He isn't hidden away in some ivory tower - at least, not for now. He has a solid team around him and sees himself as one of a passionate group of private sector business leaders who can expand radio way beyond its current 6% advertising share.
He may make a few mistakes along the way, but he should be given the space to try and achieve his ambitious aims - and get the credit if it turns out successfully.
- Steve Barrett is editor of Media Week, steve.barrett@haymarket.com, www.mediaweek.co.uk/stevebarrettblog.