[iainctduncan]

So PHD in computer science, wrote programming books still recommended by very smart people 30 years after the fact, launched, ran and sold successful startup, and now successful VC is... ordinary? People like Peter Norvig say "On Lisp" is one of the best books on lisp! I'm in the software acquisition business, so I talk to founders getting ready to exit every month. That set of combined successes is most emphatically not ordinary.

[iainctduncan]

I find it very strange that people are voting this down. I mean seriously, we're talking about whether someone writing about development is "ordinary"... Given the above credentials, you're seriously arguing that PG is in the same category as ordinary random dev writing programming articles? Seriously? He's just not. That's just wrong. He's got stellar academic and business credentials - that combination is not common. I guess haters gonna hate and all that.

[warlog]

https://worldwarwings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/survivo...

Keep talking about business "success" stories and their secrets.

[xirbeosbwo1234]

He isn't in the same category as an average programmer. He's way lower, since he doesn't work in the field any more.

He is something of an expert on business, I suppose, if you take having lots of money as evidence of smarts rather than as evidence of bad character.

[armatav]

Vastly overestimating the average programmer.

[iainctduncan]

But not the average programmer's estimation of their own ability! ;-)