If you wrote the story as fiction, most non-tech readers would find it boring. Somebody who is really interested in tech, driven and works all day, every day.

If you wrote the story as fiction, most non-tech readers would find it boring. Somebody who is really interested in tech, driven and works all day, every day. For the tech-savvy readers there's a lot of stuff pg did that is not directly related to his material success, but oh so cool. For example his book on Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html You don't write a book on Lisp because you want to get rich. You write it because you just do it for its own sake. And then he got rich immediately after publishing it. What a cool move. For the nerds who can read the signals.