Lovely story and kudos to both Montanez (the janitor) and the company for their success but I can't help notice a bit of survivorship bias in these kind of stor

Lovely story and kudos to both Montanez (the janitor) and the company for their success but I can't help notice a bit of survivorship bias in these kind of stories. How many thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of such ideas come to people at all levels in all companies and how many turn out to be duds is never covered. Although the story made me feel good, I can't really draw any lessons from it I'm afraid.