Well you know more than I do, I don't know anyone who can truly say it was all me without also I didn't mention money laundering or thievery or trading in illegal things like smuggling to float their legitimate business.
It's sad that we don't promote the actual people making it on their own steam, because that is hard, damn near impossible I would say in many cases.
I did some research on JS, from what I could tell he comes from a bit of money so he could study at certain institutions, rubbed shoulders with the right crowd and got backing to do some social media startup in China. Then used that "success" to gather more VC capital and ICO money to basically take ETH and add some extra bits to it
Being able to outspend the competition takes a lot of your shoulders