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That was the overriding thought in the back of my mind too, when I read the article. I sincerely mean "Well done" to Carl for what he has achieved, and how he
by cyberferret 9y ago
That was the overriding thought in the back of my mind too, when I read the article.
I sincerely mean "Well done" to Carl for what he has achieved, and how he did it, but I think that more than one person who reads this article will quit their job shortly and try and achieve the same thing to the same scale that he did. It is still somewhat a game of chance. Nothing is guaranteed. I've been there, and I know the scene well.
- jlangenauer 9y agoAnd maybe they will.
- eeZah7Ux 9y ago"somewhat" a game of chance? For each garage millionaire there's ten million penniless garage tinkerers. It's a lottery.
- onion2k 9y agoIt's a lottery. I don't think that's a reasonable interpretation of what makes someone succeed where others fail. There is an element of luck involved, but you can greatly improve your chances by doing things like working hard, understanding the problem you're solving, really talking to your customers, getting a mentor, saying no to distractions, etc. Those things wouldn't have any impact if it really was a lottery.
- ajuc 9y agoIt's a lottery with some requirements to participate.
- nunobrito 9y agoThree years ago before doing a startup I would say it is more talent than lottery. After three years I'm bound to believe in the lottery. Sometimes those calls do fall out of nowhere and dictate the survival or death of your company (so was our case). Related to this, there is a Portuguese saying: "A sorte favorece os audazes", meaning: "Luck favors the bold ones". This was derived from the Roman empire, so for sure there has to be some reason to stick around for so long.
- austinjp 9y agoIndeed. And having or gaining those requirements is itself a lottery.
- have_faith 9y agoLottery doesn't require skill and execution.
- coldtea 9y agoAnd real rewarding of effort doesn't kill 10000000 other people's similar efforts either. (As for execution that doesn't mean anything else that "it succeeded whereas others didn't" if one can't pinpoint a winning execution in advance).
- cmahler7 9y agoThere are entrepreneurs that have success numerous times, many times in wildly different fields. Creating a successful business isn't a coin flip/lottery, it's tens of thousands of decisions over years.
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- friedman23 9y agoTrue there are many that fail but if you go but building a startup on your own, even if it fails looks amazing on a CV.