> Why did we ever think it would end up differently? Because it has worked, countless times. Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc were all small software companies

> Why did we ever think it would end up differently? Because it has worked, countless times. Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc were all small software companies once, the current hotness is NVIDIA (ok hardware, not software). Obviously it doesn't happen often, or to a high percentage of startups, but hey, he wasn't lying to you, you took the job knowing the deal.