[spitfire]

> What really genius-level things has Fog Creek done?

Made himself independently wealthy. Repeatedly (IE: Not luck).

Not that I disagree with you. But that is worthy of respect in itself. Also, there is an art to the very difficult task of making the difficult look simple and easy.

[ry0ohki]

I'd argue that occurred through his writing talent more then his recruiting.

[biot]

Perhaps you didn't catch the fact that everything he wrote was a recruitment pitch?

[zeroonetwothree]

There have been many people that have won the lottery more than once. Does that mean they are skillful at winning the lottery? Simply succeeding more than once is not sufficient evidence that the success wasn't because of luck.

All success is based on luck to some extent. It's silly to argue otherwise. Of course there is skill involved as well.