I disagree with the statement that it was pure luck that they got so many upvotes/stars based on timing. Many other posts of startups got more upvotes and faile

I disagree with the statement that it was pure luck that they got so many upvotes/stars based on timing. Many other posts of startups got more upvotes and failed. Segment is providing a very useful service of translating and routing analytics data to other services. There is a lot of value in the service (in terms of time/resources it saves). High value services, sooner or later get discovered and more importantly, people/companies start paying for such services. Great article though, some thing that each technical founder should read.