This hero worship is utterly stupid.  It&#x27;s also a disservice to children.  We&#x27;re teaching them that there are heroes, and then everyone else.<p>Bull.  Work as hard as Elon did, and you&#x27;d make the same progress.  It also required luck.  No PayPal, no Elon.  And there could only be one PayPal, at precisely that time in history.<p>A better question is, why did Carmack fail where Elon succeeded?  Armadillo Aerospace was supposed to be SpaceX.