That's true, but I'm not sure if this is really a new thing, or if it's always been the case. I do think that if you want to be the proverbial "guy in the gara

That's true, but I'm not sure if this is really a new thing, or if it's always been the case. I do think that if you want to be the proverbial "guy in the garage inventing the future," it's probably better to be a liberal arts school dropout / kicked out of a state university (Jobs + Wozniak) than coming from Harvard (Gates.) But for such people, there may be zero correlation between real innovation and financial reward.