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Explain. Do you really think the Google founders set out to be billionaires? I think that most of the interesting and decent rich people had no idea they'd be

Explain. Do you really think the Google founders set out to be billionaires? I think that most of the interesting and decent rich people had no idea they'd be so successful. They put one foot in front of the other until they had something of great value.

fnid2 17y ago
For the record, they also didn't set out to compete with any of the existing search engines, rather their interest was to prove the viability of their linux cluster and an internet of data was a good theater for that.
- pw0ncakes 17y ago
  Right. In terms of intellectual and creative advancement, the overwhelming majority of it comes from people who were both uninterested in monetarily capturing the value of it, and also bad at doing so. Most people with the talent for making money are people with few other talents (just because of the general rarity of talent; when the correlation is zero, people with talent X are very unlikely to have talent Y).
  - fnid2 17y ago
    Interesting take. I see so many "business types" looking for developers to help them build their great idea. But developers aren't interested in building someone else's idea, so it may be the opposite approach which is mo' betta. Business people should be looking for existing technical products to sell, rather than trying to think of ideas themselves.
    - pw0ncakes 17y ago
      The issue is that our society worships the hell out of money and the making thereof, at the expense of all else, creating an environment where the business people become "high priests" and get orders of magnitude more compensation, influence, and power than equally qualified and responsible people in other industries. Large companies also use the creative, interesting work as a reward for doing well at the upper-grunt (middle management) level, so it goes to the most loyal, and those best at playing the "business game", rather than the most qualified. The current arrangement makes as much sense as for particle physicists to tell Michael Jordan how to play basketball.

fnid2 17y ago

For the record, they also didn't set out to compete with any of the existing search engines, rather their interest was to prove the viability of their linux cluster and an internet of data was a good theater for that.

pw0ncakes 17y ago
Right. In terms of intellectual and creative advancement, the overwhelming majority of it comes from people who were both uninterested in monetarily capturing the value of it, and also bad at doing so. Most people with the talent for making money are people with few other talents (just because of the general rarity of talent; when the correlation is zero, people with talent X are very unlikely to have talent Y).
- fnid2 17y ago
  Interesting take. I see so many "business types" looking for developers to help them build their great idea. But developers aren't interested in building someone else's idea, so it may be the opposite approach which is mo' betta. Business people should be looking for existing technical products to sell, rather than trying to think of ideas themselves.
  - pw0ncakes 17y ago
    The issue is that our society worships the hell out of money and the making thereof, at the expense of all else, creating an environment where the business people become "high priests" and get orders of magnitude more compensation, influence, and power than equally qualified and responsible people in other industries. Large companies also use the creative, interesting work as a reward for doing well at the upper-grunt (middle management) level, so it goes to the most loyal, and those best at playing the "business game", rather than the most qualified. The current arrangement makes as much sense as for particle physicists to tell Michael Jordan how to play basketball.