Fabrice Bellard, Ted Nelson, Theo de Raadt, Patrick Volkerding, Richard Stallman, Larry Wall, these people aren't off working at stable ibm-like firms. It's a different kind of thing. Look at Nelson's fiery career crash when he worked at Autodesk. Look at Woz and Paul Allen walking away or Bushnell getting rid of Atari. This isn't the grab-and-dash modern unicorn stuff, these people saw it wasn't right for them. The company outgrew them.

They couldn't do the job. That's not where they fit.

Chefs make terrible bus boys and bus boys make terrible chefs.

That's the big important lesson: The Chef is incapable of being a bus boy.

It's not "too easy for her" and she's not "too smart for it". The chef can't consistently, reliably, and efficiently do the tasks. The hierarchy is illusory, it's all about fit.

Drucker explains this better than I ever could. He's a good read