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Worked at Google Pre IPO, worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab, became an Angel Investor, acquired Startups, founder and CEO of Spark Innovation Labs....

....I hope to one day have my career destroyed as badly as this.

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Maybe he didn't leave his mark as a programmer/engineer the way HE wanted to, but you definitely have to admire his ability to identify good opportunities. He laments choosing and then using LISP for so long and in a way seems to blame the language for adversely affecting his perspective on programming, but it really seems like it served him well when it was useful. I think the same intuition that helped him choose LISP for solving problems (because it was a nice set of tools at the time) probably ended up helping him choose good professional opportunities, too. If he's frustrated about the way his perspective changed then I have to agree with the other commenters that he would need to work on changing that perspective and not remain complacent.

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