Thanks for this - I think there's something to also be said about too many people failing once and not trying again. This could be for any number of reasons:

Thanks for this - I think there's something to also be said about too many people failing once and not trying again. This could be for any number of reasons: 1. burnout 2. life circumstances (dependents like kids, parents or others) 3. time to failure - if you built a company for 9 years, you might have less time and appetite to start again (partly due to 1 and 2) Life is uncertain, many things about our life are probabilistic. Risk management is central to many aspects of life. On HN a prevailing sentiment is on the luck of doing a startup (no doubt you do need luck!!!) but what about the farmer or fisherman? A disease or weather can wipe you out. Or a storm can kill you while you're out at sea.