Isn't this basically Bill Gates exemplifying the "Rockstar Programmer" persona? "I did X in Y time so why don't you follow my lead" may have been a motivationa

Isn't this basically Bill Gates exemplifying the "Rockstar Programmer" persona? "I did X in Y time so why don't you follow my lead" may have been a motivational tactic at the time, but it did backfire. I'm forced to wonder if this is how the motif began.