This. I suppose I am a successful founder, but it sure wasn't some mystical "vision of the future" - I have about ten of those a day, and I'm sure everyone else

This. I suppose I am a successful founder, but it sure wasn't some mystical "vision of the future" - I have about ten of those a day, and I'm sure everyone else does too. We succeeded due to blind luck - right place, right time. And a lot of hard work of course, but there are multitudes working just as hard who don't succeed because their thing isn't quite compelling enough, or a large competitor suddenly appears out of nowhere, or even the stock photo they used is also used by a popular gambling website and turns people off. I guess the whole VC thing is predicated on the idea that you can pick winners, and therefore those winners (founders) must be something special. We're not - we're just dice that came up six.