[Schiendelman]

Henry Ford was a Nazi. Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post and drove it into the ground.

I think basically any of the leaders who brought us the technology we are using today are cults of personality like this, we just forget about the ones that aren't contemporary. I have yet to see us grow without them.

[psb217]

If Henry Ford didn't exist, do you think no one would have tried mass manufacturing? If Jeff Bezos didn't exist, do you think no one would have scaled up an online store? These techno business overlord types occasionally nudge our timeline ahead by a few months, and are rewarded handsomely for it, but they've never produced some fundamental new insight or technology that leaps us forward in ways we wouldn't otherwise achieve.

[Schiendelman]

It doesn't matter what I think - it matters who actually delivers these things. And it's generally these guys.