[ryandrake]

That's what struck me, too. Here's a guy who looks and talks like some rando young really smart technical dude, like the hundreds I've met over my career. He doesn't appear to have those Ivy Leaguer mannerisms, not some tweed blazer-wearing, popped collar, McKinsey BankingConsultant, who you always expect to end up as all your C-level execs. This guy doing the demo could have been you or I. Yet here I still am in my late 40s still an IC worker bee at the bottom of the org chart, and here he is running the most valuable company in the world. How can you not believe in randomness?

[strikelaserclaw]

In my opinion the most talented don't always succeed in the wildest ways but they do succeed to a pretty large extent. In an alternative timeline bill gates might not be the richest man heading up one of the largest companies but he would definitely have been a very successful multimillionaire banker, lawyer etc...

[geodel]

This is insightful comment. I feel the same. Impossible level of success is most likely random. But a decent level of success is achievable with sustained effort in their particular domain

[gscott]

And be happy and fulfilled in either position.