I stumbled upon Altucher's website and read a few of his blog entries. Prizing Elon Musk, OK, I already disagree with that. Then about Steve Case of AOL fame, he says he would have sold AOL for 100s of millions. So I looked up Case's worth, because I had a feeling he did OK without selling out. Yeap, his worth is 1.4 billion, I think that counts as success. A TED talk of Altucher's put me to sleep, but I wanted to give another chance, so I looked up reviews of his books.
"The good news is that there are 250 million people in this country. Maybe more. I forget." (p. 88).
It's unprofessional, sloppy, and irritating. When I read that I had to ask myself "Why am I bothering to read this if you didn't bother to use google and look it up?"
OK, I don't think I am going to be a fan....