Most "tech bros" aren't even techies, they're businessmen. Sam Altman and Elon Musk didn't invent anything and don't have a high degree of technical aptitude. They got where they are by investing and hyping things other people make. The only household name "tech bros" that actually have some claim to have done something intelligent in tech are the Google founders. I guess maybe Zuckerberg since he was at least involved in the coding of Facebook, though it's hard to call Facebook innovation rather than, as Galloway points out, luck. But at least he wrote some code in the project that made him famous.
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The fact that Elon Musk had to go to court to legally take the title of 'Founder of Tesla' away from Martin Eberhard should tell you how much "tech" bros know about tech.
Forums and messengers existed before Facebook came along. The one thing Facebook did right, was make it easier to access.
Same thing with Google, search engines existed, google just made it easier to use.
I am not sure if it was crypto, or NFTs, but something happened to these tech companies, they stopped making things easier to use, and started trying to make every byte of data into a dollar.
Advertising is what happened, and it mostly started with Google. Pretty much the only reason tech companies are so obsessed with hoovering up every scrap of info they can about their customers is to feed it into a model that can be used for targeted advertising. Advertising is in a very literal sense what the modern Internet is built on, for, and financed by. You can pretty much divide the history of the internet into pre-Google when advertising was all about user impressions (the era of page view counters), and the post-Googe era when advertising was all about user data (the era when every website wants you to login using your google or facebook account to better correlate your behavior).
TLDR Nepotism. Tale as old as time.
Destroying civilizations since civilizations have been a thing.
Success requires luck. With that said you also have to help luck along by doing whatever you can to put yourself in a position to "luck out". Finally, you need to be alert, ready, and willing to react to a lucky break.
you also have to help luck along by doing whatever you can to put yourself in a position to "luck out". Finally, you need to be alert, ready, and willing to react to a lucky break.
Not really, no. Once you reach a certain level of wealth and/or power, the other powerful people who write and enforce the rules won't let you fail no matter what you do or don't do.
Most of the richest and most powerful people in the world were born near if not past that line.
Edit: fixed bizarre autocorrect from "wealth" to 'grouchiness" 😮😄
"guy said stuff" isnt news
It can be. You're right that "Guy says blindingly obvious stuff" isn't, though.
It's news to oblivious "hail corporate" types.