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So you are telling me these were the only guys ever to have friends and family with that sort of cash to help out ? Many millions are lost every year by friend

• pjc50 8y ago
  > Many many many millions are lost every year by friends and families helping start companies that fail. As you've seen, there is a huge amount of luck involved as well.
  • blackoil 8y ago
    But unless luck favors men, it does not explain gender gap.
    • Vraxx 8y ago
      I think "luck" is mostly a bucket that we put all of the factors we couldn't have properly planned for into, so it seems that unconscious bias expressed by insiders in an industry/movement could easily describe a lot of what we might normally chalk up to "bad luck". My point isn't to say "that is definitely what happened", just that the notion that "luck favors men" isn't as ridiculous of a proposition as you seem to imply. Put another way, every interaction we have with other people, no matter how brief or long lasting, contributes to that person's "luck" based on whether those interactions ended up favorable or unfavorable. If there was a present unconscious bias in a group that slanted the probability of a person's interactions with everyone else in that group (even if it just slanted it a bit) due to a personal characteristic, that would manifest itself as "bad luck" for group of people that had this characteristic who received this statistical slight.