Imo it's rather simpler than that; he was not a programmer. Idea vs Execution and all that. All the breakout successes from the software era (Oracle, Microsoft,

Imo it's rather simpler than that; he was not a programmer. Idea vs Execution and all that. All the breakout successes from the software era (Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Mozilla etc) have programmer founders. Probably just he was ahead of his time; if he had been born 15 years later he probably would have been a programmer.