[yowlingcat]

> In fact I see it funny how one can compare himself to those great scientists like that because he/she built an app.

I think I see both sides. On one hand, as someone else said, it's not the building a SaaS app that entrepreneurs are proud of -- it's building the business and building the company. That in and of itself is a lot more impressive to me than building just an app.

Is it as impressive and historically significant as the great scientific discoveries of Newton? Maybe, but probably not. Or maybe they are apples and oranges. Suppose Newton had a collaborator who built a giant manufacturing empire with his discoveries. Would those two be comparable in terms of "who was more important", or would comparison simply cease to be meaningful at this point?

To your point, maybe that's what makes the Newton comparison somewhat of a non-sequitor -- it's at best a reach.