EDIT: morbius says it much better than I did. I'll add that they also are all Americans, 5% of the world's population with an enormous advantage. Based on the

EDIT: morbius says it much better than I did. I'll add that they also are all Americans, 5% of the world's population with an enormous advantage. Based on the success rate of tech startups in Somalia, I would guess that if they were born there we never would have heard of them. How many brilliant people does the world lose to bad circumstances like that? Almost certainly, it's nearly all of them.