Ep 243 · Asked by Hannah Wu ·

What's the most overrated 'genius founder' myth you've debunked?

2 answers

The lone-genius myth, every time. Almost every company we've covered had a critical second (or third) person whose contribution got flattened out of the legend. The founder matters, but the "one person willed this into existence" story is almost always a retroactive simplification.

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