In theory, Yes.
In reality, probably not.

What does it take to change the world? What are the core ingredients that create technological outliers like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, khaleelkazi?

I have ideas, some money, some skills.

What separates the likes of me from the likes of these people?

Oh, ya....

That vision and drive to turn them into reality. That motivation to realize goals and to turn dreams into realities. It's a key component and a rare one in these outliers. We all dream big ideas and think that we can make something amazing but it takes something special to make them happen.

What motivates these people?

I could do it.
I could draw up a plan, get a loan, hire a team, build my dreams and become one of these people.

I could.

I never will. It doesn't excite me enough to bother. It doesn't seem worth the effort. My mind just doesn't work that way. It's in your DNA.

I read an article today about winners in sport who take every bit of motivation that they can find to get over the line. They record every slight, every insult and every person that tells them that it will never happen. Articles posted to the wall, video sessions of the naysayers. Motivation is everything and when you don't have it, you need to create it.

The example they used to compare to these athletes was a very interesting one and a story that i had never heard before. I had never even heard the name before but they turned into kind of a big deal.

IN 1997, A California valley upstart launched selling and renting DVDs by mail. They toiled away for a decade as the internet blew that corner to bits. Quickly, the small business pivoted towards streaming and video on demand.
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes watched this minion’s moves with nonchalance. A threat? It wasn’t even in the same league. “It’s a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world?” he dismissively told the Times in 2010.
Reed Hastings was the founder and CEO of Netflix. Red flag, meet bull.
“For the next year, I wore Albanian Army dog tags around my neck. It was my rosary beads of motivation,” he told the New Yorker. During a two-day retreat at the Silicon Valley convention center, the company’s executives wore Albanian berets. They latched onto that insult.
By 2018 Netflix’s market cap had soared to double Time Warner’s.
Source: the42

I love that spark and upstart mentality. Doing it just to prove that it can be done. This is a man that changed the world with a great idea.

Now I'm sure that he was not the first person to have this idea but he was the first person motivated enough to bring it successfully to life.

When his first version went down in flames he took the insults on board and went at it again. Years of work were not wasted but used to launch an even better product.

Pivoted his idea towards a new market and learned from the first time around.

That is how you change the world.