3 ms·
One must love the selection bias of all those articles about startups. If you were the head of a 9B$ "startup", would you really say you "made it" ?. No , you
by ironjunkie 8y ago
One must love the selection bias of all those articles about startups.
If you were the head of a 9B$ "startup", would you really say you "made it" ?. No , you would probably do like Patrick and John and say it is "so hard everyday", and we never "made it" to better subscribe to the startup narrative.
In summary, there is no content in this article as it is usually the case whenever successful founders are interviewed.
- segmondy 8y agoif you are smart you must talk about how hard it is not how hard you work and how lucky you are. anything else will earn you scorn from the people.
- flashgordon 8y agoI get the difficulty component but surely acknowledging the luck component cannot be the scorn magnet? What is so bad about acknowledging that there was a component in the success (how ever small you want to make it) that wasnt truly you but just kismet?