[quote=AN]
What you fail to understand is guys like Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Gates, Jobs, etc. are all the same. They’re just born in different generation. When Gates and Jobs started Apple and Microsoft, there were no internet. Yet, they still made their millions. The reason why I say they all are the same is because they all are problem solvers. [/quote]
What’s ironic is that Bill Gates and his father are interviewed extensively in the book “The Self-Made Myth”… and they both disagree with you. They find it existentially absurd the wealth that Bill Gates has been able to amass through Microsoft and see “collective fingerprints” and pure “good luck” everywhere in his success.
To be clear, I agree that all of your so-called “problem solvers” would be very successful in most different times and places… the issue is the absolute and relative DEGREE of their success. There are MANY hard-working, indefatigable, brilliant problem solvers out there… only a teeny tiny fraction of them become billionaires. What’s the difference between them? Randomness.
