This sort of thing always reminds me of the description of the wright brothers and their mainstream competitor: Samuel Pierpont Langely from Simin Sinek's TED t

This sort of thing always reminds me of the description of the wright brothers and their mainstream competitor: Samuel Pierpont Langely from Simin Sinek's TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?language=en http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi... . We've hit a tipping point in SV culture where we mostly just hear about the modern Langelys, but there are plenty of Wrights out there, toiling away in obscurity, driven only by the promise of solving a real problem.