Great founder are game developer too - exiang/startup-resources GitHub Wiki
Do you know the top 3 famous startup founders of Microsoft, Apple, Tesla have something in common? Yes, they all wrote a video game at some point of their life.
Video game is the cutting edge way to express one's creativity. It consists of everything that movie has with extra dimension of interactivity. Video game combines both art and science: on the art part, there's 3d modelling, 2d texturing, storytelling, music, animation, level design; and on the science part, there's 3D, physics, database, networking, ai, and more programming involved.
Startup is an innovation driven businesses. Most successful founders in the west are with programmer background and they do code! It's hard to imagine one who is innovative, creative and possess the ability to code would not try to hack into their favorite computer game to find out how things work. Naturally, they would get started to build their own game.
Lets look into what game these successful founders had built in the past:
Bill Gate wrote Donkey.Bas in a night (as what media claim)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS
- https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-wrote-the-first-…
Steve Job & Steve Wozniak develop a single-player version of Pong when they are in Atari
Elon Musk built a space-themed PC game called Blastar at 12
- https://www.quora.com/How-good-is-Elon-Musk-at-programming
- https://www.cnbc.com/…/elon-musk-talks-about-how-video-game…
- https://www.theverge.com/…/8752333/elon-musk-blastar-pc-game
You should stop learning from these founders thru media's lense but perhaps try to figure out what they have done in the past and most importantly why they did it
p/s: so far i failed to google any info about Jeff Bezos coded a game.