you can do a lot! - discount the useless advice you get from people who got lucky and are unaware of this fact - target trying to be in the right place at the

you can do a lot! - discount the useless advice you get from people who got lucky and are unaware of this fact - target trying to be in the right place at the right time and have a plan B if you don't get lucky, rather than waking up at 0400 every day to eat raw eggs or whatever - respect yourself and your employees more - be more generous with what luck brings you etc etc etc a much better question is why do YC and co not talk about luck and connections more? why do they pretend it's all some imaginary meritocracy rather than hugely dependent on going to the right school / being born into the right social class, and then hugely advantaged by having YC's name recognition and tame lendors attached?