These people need to understand how people don't make super arcane, high IQ decisions no matter how high up you go. You enlist a bunch of people to do things you don't know how to do. You get a bunch of people to do leg work, research, a/b testing, polling, etc. for you. You hire lawyers to go aggro against anybody else who does things similar to you. If you're a billionaire you hire lobbyists to give you sweetheart deals and slash public funding in exchange for making it your new marketplace. The further past $1MM net worth you go the closer your contribution drifts towards "owning things." Amazon was in the right place at the right time with the dot com bubble, but ultimately it came down to a lot of luck and the understanding that owning things - land, production facilities, and politicians makes your center of power bigger. It's not exactly a new innovation in truck technology that got him to be the second richest man.
These people need to understand how people don't make super arcane, high IQ decisions no matter how high up you go. You enlist a bunch of people to do things you don't know how to do. You get a bunch of people to do leg work, research, a/b testing, polling, etc. for you. You hire lawyers to go aggro against anybody else who does things similar to you. If you're a billionaire you hire lobbyists to give you sweetheart deals and slash public funding in exchange for making it your new marketplace. The further past $1MM net worth you go the closer your contribution drifts towards "owning things." Amazon was in the right place at the right time with the dot com bubble, but ultimately it came down to a lot of luck and the understanding that owning things - land, production facilities, and politicians makes your center of power bigger. It's not exactly a new innovation in truck technology that got him to be the second richest man.