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John is less than one year older than Elon. They are both hugely smart from a technology standpoint but John's knowledge goes very deep. John's focus is impleme
by Todd 13y ago
John is less than one year older than Elon. They are both hugely smart from a technology standpoint but John's knowledge goes very deep. John's focus is implementing the future of technology personally. Elon's focus is bringing sufficient capital to bring the technological future to the present.
- illumen 13y agoBoth came from game dev backgrounds. Carmack announced he was getting into rockets a couple of years before Musk sold paypay... and then got into rockets :) I wouldn't be surprised if Carmack heavily inspired Musk. If not just with shareware, and online payments, then with rockets. Also, the public .plan files he published in the 90s heavily inspired the web log/blog craze :)
- jasonwatkinspdx 13y agoThese are interesting points. I think the crowd that wasn't on the web in the mid 90's may not understand just how influential Carmack was on so many of us.