People like to discount all these things as being outliers, but they're the norm. Even many "rags to riches" stories are frequently more about luck and buildin

People like to discount all these things as being outliers, but they're the norm. Even many "rags to riches" stories are frequently more about luck and building a network of support from which the business can be launched than they are about scrappy business sense. Take WhatsApp's founder: a true self-made, rags-to-riches story. Underlying his self-made success is that he'd built a solid network and financial padding working in high-paying tech jobs at places like Yahoo. He worked hard to reach a point that most founders are simply born into and then launched a successful business.