Valdis Krebs
JA WestenbergNewcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine in 1712. It was awful. 1% thermal efficiency. James Watt showed up 57 years later and built one that worked. Newcomen got a Wikipedia footnote. Watt got a unit of measurement.
"The World's First" is not the trophy you think it is.
The World's First Bullshit
I opened Twitter this morning and three different startups were announcing "the world's first" something. An AI CMO, an autonomous AI marketer, and a design agent "with taste," which is a phrase that made me close my laptop for about ten minutes. None of them are the world's first anything.