[jfengel]

You are correct. He is the greatest founder of all time. That much is true.

He is also a prolific liar. He massively exaggerates his technical contributions. He uses his wealth to persecute his perceived ideological enemies. Quite a few of his failures are outright fraud. He's also racist as f**.

I give him credit for having backed some winners, some of which were not at all obvious. But in many ways he has also been lucky rather than smart -- most notably Paypal, which is the one that made him rich. He has had massive failures that would have let him out of being able to make any more investments, were it not for the fact that he had made one massive fortune already.