And for my two cents, he always seemed like a disingenuous hype salesman more than a technical person.
He's an Elon Musk or a Lex Friedman.
I don't really see anything[1] that suggests that this sentence is true. Now, I'm not saying that he hasn't been successful, but there's "successful" and then there's your hyperbole.
Worldcoin. Which is, to put it mildly, not positive.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...