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Mark has never had an original idea. He stole Facebook then bought everything else like Instagram, Whatsapp and many many more.

Not exactly an insult but since they're not his ideas he doesn't have the ideology to back it up or an end goal. He never wanted to connect people. Vs someone like Musk who lives and breathes his ideas and has an end goal.

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I like Elon Musk. A lot. But it's sick how it just became the new standard when referring to "genius" or worse "perfect being". He did not start Tesla. Ditto Solar City. Actually, I'd say he intentionally pushed out the former founder and CEO of Tesla. Read the story :-). He "only" started Space X.

Didn't he confound PayPal.

He started X.com. The founders of PayPal were forced by their VCs to merge the two companies, because X.com had a massive cash position, and a banking license.

He's an easy reference, shouldn't be surprising that he's used - he's fresh on people's minds, recency effect and all that. When I reference Elon and the companies he's leading, it's not stating an assumption he's doing it alone - I'm simply referencing his thinking style based on the videos I've seen of him speaking. They're big industries too he's disrupting, forcing change and innovation from others/competitors - so that makes him even more prevalent in my mind as well.

Who would you jump to referencing if wanting to include an example of holistic thinking, empathetic person, who is known to work/think/make decisions from founding principles?

I agree with everything you said - except "Mark has never had an original idea" is a bit of an unfair statement, however it's perhaps true he's blocked from creativity.

It wasn't an insult, only referring to anything widely used. I'm sure he's thought of things.

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