Viaweb was sold for about $50 million worth of Yahoo stock. So more than 95% of the first billion was from something other than coding.

The rate at which finance mints extremely wealthy workers dwarfs the rate at which software does.

Doesn't look like it dwarfs it. According to Forbes, 15% of billionaires are in finance, 12% are in fashion, 9% are in tech.

The comparison would be more accurate with the relative sizes of each industry. Pretty sure there are more software engineers than people working in similarly skilled finance jobs.

I would bet on the opposite, at least since 2008.

I think it's probably pretty pretty similar actually.

I would say tech probably has worse median outcomes but better right tail outcomes than finance.

He is not We.