[sliverstorm]

I'd venture to say the vast majority of businesses are started by one core person

On the other hand, we as humans have a well known desire for one person to pin everything on. A 'hero fallacy' if you will (I'm sure there's a better term). Thousands of invested engineers didn't make the iPhone, Steve Jobs made the iPhone. Millions of troops and five countries didn't win WWII, General Patton did. A series of brilliant collaborating scientists building on the shoulders of giants didn't invent nuclear fission, Albert Einstein did. Turing cracked Enigma, nevermind the Polish cryptographers whose work he built on. Can you even name half of The Traitorous Eight?

The list of examples where we pick one name to worship from a large enterprise of many deeply involved individuals is very, very long.

So, maybe it's good to discount a perspective that identifies one single person as the complete nexus of success for any particular enterprise.