If you need a job to motivate you and be told what to do and how to do it, you're not in the top 1%. I think this is a way to pander to his future employees. :

If you need a job to motivate you and be told what to do and how to do it, you're not in the top 1%. I think this is a way to pander to his future employees. :) Isn't the top one percent kind of a large number? Maybe you want the top quarter of one percent? I mean, the majority of software developers probably work in IT doing zero innovation, not in a company that creates software that pushes boundaries. I definitely think the number of developers who are creative, passionate, smart, fast, adaptive, and good is less than 1% of all software developers. Maybe that's accounted for because he's ignoring those who start their own startups, as they are too good for his 1% formula?