> Where else can you, with just your hands and a laptop on the Internet, create something a billion people use? Serious question: how many software companies h

> Where else can you, with just your hands and a laptop on the Internet, create something a billion people use? Serious question: how many software companies have something that a billion people have used? It's a pretty special industry, for sure. But the odds of it happening are basically zero. I see how selling the dream makes for a good story for young and hungry startup founders to passionately change the world and (cynically) end up as a failed bet in someone else's portfolio. But it's a bit disingenuous to make it sound like it's commonplace.