Constantly supposed at how people dunk at founders. Well now that hackernews will give you the answer you can just fail upward and create billion dollar companies
Funny you should say that. OpenAI was launched with a billion dollars in funding. This didn't exactly start out as a bedroom operation.
Or take the Collison brothers, people talk about them as being out of this world smart as well. They have some great talks about their experience building Stripe and their skills at scaling a business are apparent.
I just haven't seen that or heard about Sam's reputation from anyone but PaulG.