There are three key lessons in this story here :

1. The lone inventor myth. Far too often, we believe its one single person's will that forged a great product, often forgetting that countless incredible nameless people that work behind the scenes making some of the worlds best product.

2. Even visionaries always don't have the best vision of the future. But a great team can probably help see the future better.

3. It takes a lot of lobbying and story selling to get people to buy into your narrative. Far too often I see people give up just having pitched their idea barely a few times. It sometimes takes months, even years to sell a game changing story.