If you define success as founding the next Google then the overwhelming majority of readers on HN will be unsuccessful. The number of "Google class" firms in Si

If you define success as founding the next Google then the overwhelming majority of readers on HN will be unsuccessful. The number of "Google class" firms in Silicon Valley is perhaps a dozen in the last two decades. It's akin to defining successful as winning the lottery, because, let's face it, they were as lucky as they were smart.