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This man should cure you of your impostor syndrome: Guy who founded an AI startup interned at Twitter, shipped nothing, had to ask for help for basic FE fixes, and couldn't figure out GraphQL, then quit because he didn't see enough green on his GitHub activity card.

On the other hand, maybe it shows that one reason why people start startups is that they are bad at judging how difficult problems are to solve.

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I'm sure he's a smart guy, but I never got why his exploits-finding made him a kid genius. Isn't the white hat community full of whiz kids? What makes geohot more of a genius than comex? Adrian Lamo didn't even know how to code!

> What makes geohot more of a genius [in the public eye] than comex?

His confidence, probably.

He's photogenic and good with media. Look at his twitter profile - he obviously spent a lot of time and thought on that picture, and it makes him look like a kid from the movie Hackers - that's not accidental.

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