What's so special about those people? Their success is probably due to their connections, and mostly luck in timing. I'm sure there are people that are better than Larry or Sergei and are much less successful.

It's not all luck, a lot of it is who they are. They are mostly aspie nerds. They all went to private montessori "we just do whatever we want" schools. Those schools teach them they don't have to compromise, they don't have to be average, they don't have to work within the system. They just do whatever they want. If someone tries to stop you, you destroy them for standing in the way of you doing whatever you wanted to do.

The same people generally lack overt, crippling hardships in their lives. They get to associate with other successful people from an early age and often have built-in family or community connections.

Musk was studying supercapacitors obsessively as a kid, as a teenager, as a 20-something, and now he puts them in his cars. It's not all luck.

We're at the first age of humanity where aspie hyper-focused weirdness can be funneled into taking over the world. We're just getting started.

Even with that, Zuckerberg isn't 100% focusing on the Facebook core product; look at the Connectivity Lab, for example.