I never fully understood this and Its making my perception of the startup world (and my place on it) biased.
How is it possible for people like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Steve Jobs (just naming the big ones but there are many more similar) to start at such a young age on the startup tech journey and then not being replaced by more prominent Developers/Scientists/Engineers?
Do they kept learning all the time to catch up with the team?
For example Sam Altman, he attended Stanford for only 2 years (2005-2007), dropped out to create Loopt. In 2012 Loopt was acquired by another company for $43.4M. From 2012-2019 he invested on other companies and worked at YC. In 2019 Sam became the CEO of Open AI, the biggest artificial intelligence research lab.
I am sure he is more than capable but how the hell someone with only 2 years of study is able to perfom as a CEO on a super niche tech company? Shouldnt the CEO be someone who has worked on the AI field from 2007-2019?
Personal:
Since I was a child my biggest aspiration was to be like Steve Jobs. I am really good at entrepreneurial stuff and Im good with tech but I am far from being a super techy guy who knows absolutely everything about computers, and I constantly feel that If I am not the best programmer or the best scientist I can not bring any real value to the table. So I am constantly pushing myself to learn more and more and Its never enough.
Please I would appreciate a lot the thoughts of others on this. Thanks.
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