It would be survivorship bias if the author suggested a rule here - but this quote is only a statement that 'this can happen'. Where the author suggest a rule:

It would be survivorship bias if the author suggested a rule here - but this quote is only a statement that 'this can happen'. Where the author suggest a rule: "Such ideas are not guaranteed to work. But they don't have to be. They just have to be sufficiently good bets — to have sufficiently high expected value." - it is hedged against survivorship bias.