▲ 461 ▼ Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years (www.zdnet.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev 70 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) musk was a good salesman. ftfy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago I don't think that's even true. He just had enough money that he could fail 99 times before succeeding once, and the return from that one was enough that he could fail 999 times before succeeding, and so on. He just threw money around until enough other people succeeded in big enough ways, and then he claims credit. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago I don't think that's even true. He just had enough money that he could fail 99 times before succeeding once, and the return from that one was enough that he could fail 999 times before succeeding, and so on. He just threw money around until enough other people succeeded in big enough ways, and then he claims credit. permalink fedilink source parent