Beside the point. He realized his talent's highest potential in a western rule of law system with a genius for importing talent. All four of my grandparents escaped from there.

40% of Silicon Valley startups have immigrant founders. At startup events in Romania and Poland I constantly met local talent who had worked in California and NY who came back to start companies. Not everyone who starts and scales a business is a monopolist.

Same for Max Levchin (Paypal). Both were exported talent due to Russia's enserfment of its talent--and chronic anti-semitism. Russian anti-semitism created Israel's IT sector.