[fomojola]

> You are like Michael Dell and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet and Sergey Brin and countless others who have achieved financial success so massive it’s almost impossible to wrap your brain around the implications of their net worth, and yet their work ethic, drive, and ability to innovate hasn’t flagged for a decade or more.

Hate to do this, but Micheal Dell and Bill Gates have innovated in the last decade? Really? Is this the same decade or has there been a different decade I somehow missed?

[pchristensen]

They surely innovated for at least a decade after they got rich.

[scythe]

>Bill Gates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Melinda_Gates_Foundati...

[sliverstorm]

Bill Gates is 55. Microsoft was founded 35 years ago.

You're really going to hold it against him that he isn't still a dynamo of ideas and innovation?

[fomojola]

I'm not holding it against him: I'm just questioning the statement. The Gates foundation is great, but its not innovative: Rockefeller/Carnegie/etc did similar things in their time. And I have no clue what Micheal Dell has done in the last decade that is noteworthy. So to all the folks voting my comment down: in the last 10 years what about the things Bill Gates and Micheal Dell have done is innovative?

[runako]

Microsoft was founded in 1975, over 36 years ago.

[sliverstorm]

You're right, math fail. Thanks.