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He's a fucking idiot who figured out how to make a web site and got lucky with what he built and when he built it. He is not brilliant by any measure. Fuck him.
All of the billionaires are fucking idiots who got lucky. I have no idea why people look up to them like they're supergeniuses. They're clearly not. We've learned to equate money with intelligence but there's actually little connection. I'd argue it's more closely aligned with immorality, and of course luck is a big part of it. The immorality just helps you turn a little startup luck into even more "luck", recursively, forever.
They literally all brag about not being educated, it's not like they didn't tell us. lol
I'd by luck you meant inqtel funding then yes.
Why is this 'either or'? He is a brilliant person and a sociopath. It's not mutually exclusive.
He is not brilliant person. He would be fired many times over if he didn't own majority shares.
For example that whole Horizon Worlds blunder.
Billions and billions into VR and AI and really nothing to show for it.
I'd say this is enough to call him brilliant.
Just because he's an arrogant sociopath doesn't mean he's also a knuckle dragging idiot.