[bpodgursky]

On the order of millions of kids have parents who know semiconductor engineers, and 1 of them ended up manufacturing chips in the garage.

Please don't try to pick apart his accomplishments to make a point. He's still doing something that almost nobody with equivalent resources took the initiative to do.

[futharkshill]

Please see this https://www.indeed.com/career/semiconductor-engineer/salarie...

I promise you that there are not millions of kids. Your argument may still hold, but the was majority of children knows no one with this level of technical experience, let alone any programmers.

[bpodgursky]

As a sibling comment points out:

> There are ten thousand semiconductor engineers kicking around Silicon Valley and Albuquerque and Portland, and another hundred thousand in Shenzhen and Taipei and Seoul. So conservatively ten million people know a semiconductor engineer.

Nobody says they were best friend with one. You know a lot of people, and those engineers know a lot of people. I don't know why you're doubling down on this.