It's also possible that PG talked to executives... and executives everywhere seem like idiots to hackers. I've met technical founders who were really sharp who

It's also possible that PG talked to executives... and executives everywhere seem like idiots to hackers. I've met technical founders who were really sharp who listened and tried to emulate their business-focused partners to the point where they came off as kind of dumb to me. I watched this happen to one guy who was, by all appearances, smarter than I am at the beginning. (Of course, he may still have been making good decisions; he certainly made plenty of cash; they just looked like stupid decisions to me, and, well, I ain't rich yet, so maybe he was on to something.)