From an entrepreneurial standpoint, they created a 10M ARR high risk business but highly liquid business with little loans and minimal leverage. What have you accomplished?
All joking aside, I think it’s quite rude and elitist to imply something about someone’s intelligence just because of their chosen occupation. My dad had a Master’s in electrical engineering, brilliant at maths and physics, and was top of his class at university. As an immigrant he could only find jobs doing manual labor and whatnot.