I would ascribe Oprah’s success more to her being a charismatic personality/communicator and Zuckerberg didn’t even make FB, he paid some guys to make it, the idea of fb wasn’t new(there was Orkut, Myspace) it’s just the one that ended up taking off. And the latter was due to the good implementation, fb was always simple, fast and snappy. I don’t know if Zuckerberg was the one that drove this point or if he had just good guys on the technical side who understood what matters. The same can be said for Google, it was just one simple idea, the pagerank algorithm, that’s all. They even wanted to sell it to Yahoo for a couple millions before it became the success it is nowadays.
If you want good examples of rationality in Business I would vote for Warren Buffett applying Value Investing. This is really a guy who has a consistent track record of beating the market for decades. Another one is Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio has published his principles, if you ever read them you will see that they match very well with what is preached in LW. Both follow certain principles consistently over decades. Charles Munger(Buffett’s partner) has also written down his thinking, very rational stuff.
I take objection on Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah:
I would ascribe Oprah’s success more to her being a charismatic personality/communicator and Zuckerberg didn’t even make FB, he paid some guys to make it, the idea of fb wasn’t new(there was Orkut, Myspace) it’s just the one that ended up taking off. And the latter was due to the good implementation, fb was always simple, fast and snappy. I don’t know if Zuckerberg was the one that drove this point or if he had just good guys on the technical side who understood what matters. The same can be said for Google, it was just one simple idea, the pagerank algorithm, that’s all. They even wanted to sell it to Yahoo for a couple millions before it became the success it is nowadays.
If you want good examples of rationality in Business I would vote for Warren Buffett applying Value Investing. This is really a guy who has a consistent track record of beating the market for decades. Another one is Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio has published his principles, if you ever read them you will see that they match very well with what is preached in LW. Both follow certain principles consistently over decades. Charles Munger(Buffett’s partner) has also written down his thinking, very rational stuff.