Same here, I don't see what's so laudable about marginal optimization / penny pinching. Anyone can do it and almost everyone does it, they just aren't in the po

Same here, I don't see what's so laudable about marginal optimization / penny pinching. Anyone can do it and almost everyone does it, they just aren't in the position of CEO and so don't have their efforts multiplied by a factor of a million (assuming that what Rockefeller did was even optimization; I have the same doubts as hackuser). The "CEO feats" that most inspire my respect are of the exact opposite form. Jumping ship from a lucrative career to work on a default-dead startup, cannibalizing iPod sales to bet on iPhones, that kind of thing. It's not innovation if nobody thinks you're crazy for doing it.