> But there absolutely was a time when the hype seemed absolutely justified My personal take at the time when I regarded him positively was that he, although n

> But there absolutely was a time when the hype seemed absolutely justified My personal take at the time when I regarded him positively was that he, although not really a genius, "got" things in general and being in a position of power, would allow those who really were geniuses to do their jobs. If that was ever true, he switched from letting those brilliant people do their work to actually telling them to blindly follow his crazy ideas (for lulz and otherwise).