Malcolm Gladwell believes entrepreneurs are unjustly viewed by society as new-age prophets. Speaking at the Toronto Public Library's Appel Salon, the best-selling author said "Literally, we worship [entrepreneurs]. If you read the literature about great entrepreneurs, it is iconography."
He went on to say that all great entrepreneurs are "amoral". "They are completely single-minded and obsessively focused on the health of their enterprise," he continued. "That's what makes them good at building businesses, but that's what also makes them people who are not worthy of this level of hagiography."
Gladwell believes entrepreneurs will be remembered for how they helped humanity and not how much wealth they accumulated. And that's why, according to him, BIll Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft who plans to give away nearly all his wealth to help various causes around the world, will be remembered over Apple's late co-founder.
At his talk at the Toronto Public Library, Gladwell gave the following reasons for why this will happen:
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I'm going to have to disagree and say our grandkid's kids will know of the guy who ran the company that made the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and the Macintosh computer.
[viaBusiness Insider]
