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Was Steve Jobs or Elon any different with the people under them? Even John Carmack used to put his desk in the hallway during Quake's development so he could see who's coming and going and at what time.

People here romanticize too much over successful founders or visionary coders while forgetting that they were also flawed people in their own human ways and would have probably hated working under them to the core.

Why does anyone think he lost those tendencies?

Kind of the point. Let's hope he has a good therapist and does not see himself as a god like other big name billionaires.

When he had enough to hire a full PR-Team to rewrite history..

That had already happened by 1998.

About a year after being pied in the face he launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Maybe we should bring back pieing, haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK6SS8CXYZo

He only started the philanthropic efforts because his mother told him to.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-mother-inspired-p...