I don’t think that example contradicts what he said. Notch falls into the “have a lot of skills” category. Minecraft was built with a custom engine, and prior t

I don’t think that example contradicts what he said. Notch falls into the “have a lot of skills” category. Minecraft was built with a custom engine, and prior to that he worked on a two-man MMORPG (Wurm Online). I think the game industry has a lot of extremely talented “10x” developers that are also underpaid and overworked. That people are willing to put up with the terrible conditions in the game industry is an example of how interesting and fulfilling work is many times more attractive than a good salary and work/life balance. A boring SAAS company will probably never beat a game company with a fraction of the budget when it comes to hiring/retaining the best devs.