It is not that he is a one-in-a-billion kind of genius, no. He is probably in the 99.99th percentile of engineers, but that still means there's many many thous

It is not that he is a one-in-a-billion kind of genius, no. He is probably in the 99.99th percentile of engineers, but that still means there's many many thousands of engineers as smart as he is. However, he is also in the 99th percentile for marketing, 99.9th percentile in leadership, 99th percentile of celebrity, etc. No, he is not special on any single dimension, but it is extremely rare to find this distribution, which is what he actually is and all these dimensions were used to make his companies successful.