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Wasn't Zuckerberg given this same advice, that he wasn't the guy who founded Friendster, and should just stay in school? Should a business fail can't you just g
by fleitz 16y ago
Wasn't Zuckerberg given this same advice, that he wasn't the guy who founded Friendster, and should just stay in school? Should a business fail can't you just go back to school? How many great business opportunities does one get in life? I'm betting it's far less than the opportunities to blow two hundred grand on a piece of paper.
If professors knew what business ideas would succeed and which would fail then they'd be investing instead of teaching.
- pg 16y agoIf professors knew what business ideas would succeed and which would fail then they'd be investing instead of teaching. It's not ideas that succeed or fail, but founders.
- netcan 16y agoIf that is your position (pick founders, not ideas), does this preclude you from picking a future google/microsoft/ etc. except by chance? I am assuming that the really big hits are a consequence of the right idea, right time, and right people.
- pg 16y agoNo. The right people (eventually) find the right idea for the time.
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoHow could this statement be anything other than a tautology?
- pg 16y agoBecause it's also claiming that such people exist. I'm not saying P(x) ≡ Q(x), but ∃x P(x) ∧ Q(x).