I don't think most people realize that to be successful you have to have the right combination of people including a great development team, great salespeople,

I don't think most people realize that to be successful you have to have the right combination of people including a great development team, great salespeople, great marketers, and great management. Any hole or negative value people in your team and you will not be successful. And you need luck, you have to have a team that can deliver and a lot of luck. Most people aren't that good. There are a lot of people that are just so-so and it can be hard to figure who is good and who isn't. That is part of the luck. There are a lot of people that can't handle working with other good people for reasons. There are a lot of companies that build a great team but are missing a critical element and go nowhere or implode. We worship the survivors thinking that something in the mostly made up story will tell us how to succeed. It will not, they almost always forget about the other great people around them that were just a critical as they were. They always forget how much luck played in their success. Software companies die because the whole isn't static, the thing that make you successful yesterday isn't cutting it today and most people can't change with the times. Most people never move on from their high point in life and don't understand why things that worked in the past no longer work.