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The article focuses on the founder's Hypomania, but here's the elephant in the room that no-one's talking about:

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"But it is hard to tease out what Norman and Suzanne Priebatsch — a biotech entrepreneur and a financial adviser at SmithBarney, respectively — bequeathed ..."

His parents, who were successful in their fields, took the effort to groom him from childhood. Nurture is definitely at least as important as nature in this case, IMO.



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