Peter Thiel: world-class entrepreneurs are typically polymaths

"One kind of perspective for a lot of the world-class entrepreneurs is, they're not specialists. They're something close to polymaths. If you have a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, he'd be able to speak with a surprising amount of understanding about a lot of things. So, he could speak about the details of the Facebook product. He could talk about the way people think about social media... tthe psychology. He could talk about the way the culture is shifting.... the management of the company... how this fits into the bigger history of technology."

—Peter Thiel

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[tshidi]

Polymath is also inevitable for many entrepreneurs. When you bring a product into a market, you cause ripples and start a whole industry. And since there a lot of factors that go into preparing about distributing your product, it comes across as polymathy if it isn't

[jonathanbrotto]

Specialists in many things but still not a generalists.

[donaldturner]

Entrepreneurs are not polymaths. Polymaths are genius in multiple fields. Because you have knowledge in several fields does not mean you are a polymath. It’s means you are broadly learned.

[aris]

i'm a polymath but i 've started 2 projects and dropped them. WTF; where's my facebook?!?!?!?!