I know there is a ton of hero worship for him, but it's actually not that uncommon. You don't have to work yourself to death to get stuff done, despite what fo

I know there is a ton of hero worship for him, but it's actually not that uncommon. You don't have to work yourself to death to get stuff done, despite what folks may think or parade as "the way to be" for startups. If you find yourself working yourself to death over any serious length of time, you shouldn't be doing that job. My VP is a world class ping-pong player, does just as much, etc. You delegate things well enough and build good enough teams that you don't have to worry about this. IE he did none of the things you mention alone, he built teams that were effective at doing those things. When folks point out he isn't still the lead author of llvm or clang and hasn't been for a long time (at least on those projects, he hasn't written a patch in a while), people see it as slighting Chris. But it's not. The way you have time to do the stuff you are talking about is by building up communities, teams, and infrastructures so you don't have to be contributing to them all the time. Nobody really scales by being infinitely faster/better, they scale by building up people.