Perhaps, but from my own personal experience, I missed out on some big entrepreneurial opportunities because I considered people below my skill level to be insi

Perhaps, but from my own personal experience, I missed out on some big entrepreneurial opportunities because I considered people below my skill level to be insignificant. The Arduino platform came out years ago, and I continuously dismissed it because I did not consider it a "real" embedded development platform. Yet, the platform exploded and lots of neat things resulted from the platform. In hindsight, I should have embraced the platform and realized that not everyone is a professional hardware designer. Now that my outlook has changed, if someone tells me they used an Arduino, I'm going to refrain from judgement and instead look at the bigger picture of who they are and congratulate them on taking the first step into hardware.