There is nothing really surprising about this. Jim Simmons that recently passed away did exactly this in finance decades ago. He didn't build a team of the bri

There is nothing really surprising about this. Jim Simmons that recently passed away did exactly this in finance decades ago. He didn't build a team of the brightest minds in finance. He hired brilliant people that specifically did not work in finance. I think he even mentioned that astronomy was one of his favorite areas to hire from for finance. I am sure we highly underestimate the indoctrination against new ideas that anyone at the top of a field has been subject to. Humans love to turn everything into a high school prom king/queen popularity election though even when it is obvious the best people for the job didn't even go to the prom.