Outlier success pretty much requires obsessive strategic thinking. Gates and Musk are super strategic but in a "weirdo autist" way, which doesn't have a big sti

Outlier success pretty much requires obsessive strategic thinking. Gates and Musk are super strategic but in a "weirdo autist" way, which doesn't have a big stigma attached to it anymore. Peter Thiel also benefits from his weirdness. Steve Jobs had supernatural charisma working in his favor. sama has the strategic instinct but not the charisma or disarming weirdness other tech founders have. Sama is not unusually Machiavellian or narcissistic, but he will get judged more harshly for it.