> It's also ironic that many failed start-up founders end up on the investment side, I'd love to see more successful people in charge of who gets funded and who

> It's also ironic that many failed start-up founders end up on the investment side, I'd love to see more successful people in charge of who gets funded and who does not. Getting lucky doesn't teach you much and it's often hard to factor out how much of success was due to luck. In sports there is a saying: great athletes make terrible coaches. Someone for whom a sport is as natural as breathing doesn't think about it, hasn't had to struggle, never spent months and years and days and nights and weekends and waking and dozing and sleeping and showering and eating and walking obsessing over it. But the great coaches do. Because so many of them never made it as athletes. Failure is a different kind of teacher from success.