You don't need to be rich for that. Even if you're struggling financially, going out to tech events where you could meet potential partners vs. sitting at home

You don't need to be rich for that. Even if you're struggling financially, going out to tech events where you could meet potential partners vs. sitting at home with your head down could be the difference between "getting lucky" and spending the rest of your life in a W2 situation. Business is about connections and rich people get a great head start on the rest of us, but the average person does a lot of self-sabotage, as well.