[koolba]

> I think you might be underrating the value of even that enabling work. Some parents would not have the financial resources to provide those learning materials. And some parents would take a normative stance on how an 8 year old ought to behave.

And most modern parents would swamp the child with a bunch of mind rotting auto playing TV and video games. There's an account of Terence's time at university where he nearly fails his oral qualifying exams as he spent most of his time playing Civ rather than studying anything. Imagine the travesty for the world if 5 year old Terence had been handed an Xbox.

[Aperocky]

He would just become a software engineer like the rest of us, and probably would have started google or netflix.

[swftarrow]

Possibly- but a prodigious intellect and capacity doesn't necessarily translate to "founder" type entrepreneurial talents.