Or perhaps PG thinks his personal success is based purely off his own brilliance with no helpful outside factors needed He doesn't think that. Though he claim

Or perhaps PG thinks his personal success is based purely off his own brilliance with no helpful outside factors needed He doesn't think that. Though he claims to have made good decisions and benefited from competitor blunders, he frequently refers to incidents that nearly sank the company, and acknowledges the good fortune that saved them and helped them to their very happy exit.