Google started with practical attempts to improve searches and had a hard time at first because they were a search engine when people thought search engines wer

Google started with practical attempts to improve searches and had a hard time at first because they were a search engine when people thought search engines were over. Facebook started as a way of connecting people at school and didn't get big funding until much later when the leader took a major risk by leaving school which seems to emphasize what Taleb is saying about risk being central. Relying on funding too soon may indicate that investors are the only real customers.