Of course, you're wrong on virtually all counts. Sony invented Beta, which WAS a better format than the alternative, but failed to market it properly. So you lose there. Ampex was first to market with the videotape market - they were visionaries - where are they now? Beta was the best, but poorly marketed...where is it now?
Dell didn't CREATE that delivery system...he copied it and made it work well...not to mention that he started out by undercutting pricing. I'm not saying that's bad, but it helps make your system look good/better, because you can flood the market.
Finally, Gates didn't visit Xerox PARC. And I never said Jobs didn't steal GUI (he did). But that just further supports my point. Gates had no "epiphany", he saw something cool, realized he needed to catch up, and tricked Jobs into "sharing". Jobs was dumb. Gates was smart. Still....not a visionary.
You didn't respond to Gates' own comments about 156k memory or his initial response to the internet. And, (help others...I'm not 100% sure of this) but I'm 95% sure that MSFT DIDN'T write the 1st OS for Apple.
Visionaries rarely get to be the richest guys...but they help MAKE the richest guys. The geniuses behind MSFT and AAPL were really Allen and Wozniak. Allen is right behind Gates now and is even further out on the cutting edge in his investments....Wozniak has taken a more "public service" approach to life.
IF visionaries were the ones who made the money, Edison would've been a gazillionaire, Einstein incredibly wealthy, and Richard Feynman even more so.
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