Arguably the most important passage of Walter Isaacson's book, The Innovators, was something that readers largely glossed over. In his history of Silicon Valley and the geniuses who made it, Isaacson noted that the initial wealth behind these technological iconoclasts was of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Phipps variety.
Behind every artistic and political movement there are rich patrons. And the same is true when it comes to every commercial movement. It cannot be stressed enough that entrepreneurs are doing things rejected by established thinkers and doers, and since they are, they require investment from those with the courage and money to be stupendously wrong.
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