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Well, Musk hasn't actually made anything, He just buys his way into someone else's work and slaps his name on it, often making it worse. And Jobs may have had some decent ideas, but he was an absolute monster of a person and did rip off a lot of people to gain his success
Musk. Next question.
It is easy to hate on these folks but the truth of the matter is 99.999% of people, even if dealt the same exact cards as them, would not be able to accomplish anywhere near the same thing. Talk is cheap
D1 he didn’t accomplish those thing, he bought those things and slapped his name on them. That was the question, what has he created? Where is his genius? Having family wealth isn’t genius, it’s being born with advantage and entitlement.
Musk didnt invent SpaceX. Musk didnt invent Tesla, Musk didnt invent Twitter, errr X. He just had the money to buy large shares of each.
Biz Stone. Never created an original idea. Never figured out how to monetize anything
Gates too
I don't like Gates as a person, but he's undeniably very smart and solved some pretty complex problems.
I have no respect for ruthless capitalism or silicon valley culture, but I can give Gates and Jobs their intellectual dues. Gates was a fantastic problem-solver and solution-finder. Jobs was a brilliant product manager, knew how to tap into the American zeitgeist, and created a stronger human-machine connection than perhaps anybody else in history (for better or worse).
Neither of these men would really be considered "tech" geniuses. Where their genius lies is in being to able to lead other geniuses, and making a niche product a huge part of our popular culture.