The lesson from this is don&#x27;t drink anyone&#x27;s kool aid consciously. PG has a huge incentive to wax heroic about the &quot;risk takers&quot; &quot;makers&quot; and &quot;founders&quot;; it&#x27;s the Silicon Valley cargo cult, and should be compensated against in the mind of the reader. Always be brutally critical of applying the question of qui bono-- always, no exceptions, ever.<p>PG has little incentive to explicitly qualify ideas that are his foundation (regarding the prerequisites for the above), and frankly it&#x27;d kind of break up the nice flow his pieces have anyway if he did. His target audience doesn&#x27;t want to be told that they started life on second base, and honestly it&#x27;s quite annoying to have someone tell you so with the intention of taking you down a peg.