How to overcome the impostor syndrome - will I become like Buterin?

Question

Career in IT

Sometimes when I see top programmers like Vitalik Buterin, I get the feeling that I will never become like them.
In the IT environment, just a "success story" is a young millionaire, a genius, a programmer under 30, who sold a startup for millions like Buterin. I think top devs are exponentially better than most regular devs.
I suspect that I won’t become a top programmer - I didn’t solve Olympiad problems on a top coder in my school years
. rating - then you don’t need to become a programmer, the game is not worth the candle"
I understand that such logic does not work, here is an example:

• "If you don't become Tyson, you don't have to box"
  
• "If you don't become Schumacher, you don't have to drive."
  

Nevertheless, such thoughts overcome that pink dreams of becoming an IT billionaire will not come true - and yet I will be an ordinary line programmer, it’s good if with salary> 120k / year in the Valley ...

Answer 1

Millionaires are not those who program cool, but those who come up with cool ideas and know how to sell them. That's all. In IT, only the very experienced have good money, while everyone else has a little more than the average for a hospital. So take off your rose-colored glasses quickly

Answer 2

You need to be an entrepreneur, not a programmer, if you want big money

Answer 3

Why are you in programming at all? -> in order to get into some rating or to solve some problems, for example? - some rating has given up to you, do what you think is necessary and come what may, and you don’t need to pay attention to all these fake badges, ratings, and even more so to masturbate on some "top programmers".
top like Buterin?
where did you get the idea that this impostor generally knows how to program, for example, and is not a chairman? he has NO track record in product development - he is just the same impostor who "suddenly appeared out of nowhere" and without any work experience and immediately made like a billion-dollar startup.
Well, how can you believe in such a game? you listen to his interview, he is mentally retarded.

Answer 4

Hmm, the dude seems to be talking about programming, but his whole head is full of dough. No, with this approach, it will be really hard to become a cool developer. And, yes, you were correctly written above, billionaires in IT are more often salesmen-marketers, people with good entrepreneurial abilities, and not geeks. The last sentence was generally pleasing, about ordinary line programmers and 120k, while not every senior and not on any stack can get that kind of money even in the Valley.