I don't understand why so many people insist in revering others for what they've achieved.
If you need to revere anything, revere the achievement, not the man that did it.
If you need to revere anything, revere the achievement, not the man that did it.
As opposed to it being obvious that very interesting things, opportunities, were happening at those companies. With word spreading throughout the industry. Along with talent flight into said companies, so as to pursue said opportunities along with other talent. Employees in tech typically see these things happening, it's not a big secret.
You can in fact do a lot better than blind dart throwing.
In fact, the higher the IQ, the better you are able to discern true intellect vs loud mouths.
I for one revere Jeff Dean and I'm proud of it. It doesn't affect my life negatively in any way. In fact betting on people that I revere (Jobs, Musk, Zuck, Bezos, Buffett) have profited me immensely
In many of the scenarios you hint at, new problems or opportunities arose, and those people were simply well-positioned by chance and circumstance to tackle them.
The problem should take center stage, not the men.
It's not as if the court trial starts the very day the government notices the issue.
If you come to revere a pair of programmers then you've almost certainly missed the actual story of the true achievements or are blinding yourself to the fact that their achievement was only necessary due to the complete engineering failures of the company they were now attached to.