> The majority of the software industry is just lucky benefactors who “got there first”. This is not true. There are so many examples of 2nd mover who became t

> The majority of the software industry is just lucky benefactors who “got there first”. This is not true. There are so many examples of 2nd mover who became the dominant force, such as Zoom, Photoshop, MS Office, IntelliJ. To attribute a success product purely to luck is also intellectually lazy. There are often so many factors, in many cases conflicting, that change of course of a product. It is impossible to say luck is the main factor, although it is usually a factor.