He’s probably responsible for more wealth creation than anybody in the last hundred years just from those two projects.

It's really astonishing to see all the recent drama around GitHub/GitLab. Hard to believe those are multibillion dollar companies when their entire existence can be summed up as "Filling in some gaps in git". Like, if Linus Torvalds would just dedicate a few months and build that functionality directly into git, both those companies' value propositions would fall off the face of the earth.

Edit: I mean, their value propositions to internal teams would disappear. They would still have value as social networks and as centralized hosting.