If "luck" is a dirty word in the startup world, I would at least like acknowledgement that the pathways to success are frequently not replicable. Sure, nothing

If "luck" is a dirty word in the startup world, I would at least like acknowledgement that the pathways to success are frequently not replicable. Sure, nothing is certain, but some career paths are much more replicable than others. Maybe not everyone can work at a FAANGAMMATRON, there's a certain amount of luck, but "get a big tech job, work it for twenty-thirty-forty years" is still a fairly replicable path to moderate wealth. You can look at the types of actions people took to get a big tech job (probably either "attend a prestigious university, apply straight to big tech" or "attend a decent state university, work any job in between for experience, apply to big tech") and there's probably a double-digit percent chance of you being able to replicate it. You take any of the paths founders took to a successful company, it's almost impossible you'd achieve the same outcome trying to replicate it.