All of his work has been grifts from the OG X to PayPal and beyond. He just seemed enigmatic or inspired to some people for a time, enough that kool-aid was drunk. (South Africans do have a way of mesmerizing people though, must be the accent.)
That some good technology happened to pop out of it along the way had less to do with him, and more the engineers tasked with making it happen.
I don’t know about South Africans, but he definitely mesmerized Peter Thiel, who has spent years crushing on him. And I am convinced it’s not a platonic crush, or at least didn’t start out that way.
All of his work has been grifts from the OG X to PayPal and beyond. He just seemed enigmatic or inspired to some people for a time, enough that kool-aid was drunk. (South Africans do have a way of mesmerizing people though, must be the accent.)
That some good technology happened to pop out of it along the way had less to do with him, and more the engineers tasked with making it happen.
I don’t know about South Africans, but he definitely mesmerized Peter Thiel, who has spent years crushing on him. And I am convinced it’s not a platonic crush, or at least didn’t start out that way.
Folks are mesmerized by South Africans? Whenever I here one I just here the Anglo-sphere equivalent of the middle of nowhere Nevada truck stop accent.