Success is almost entirely familial positioning and timing. The Great Man is a myth that needs to die. If you or any other person had wealthy parents who sent

Success is almost entirely familial positioning and timing. The Great Man is a myth that needs to die. If you or any other person had wealthy parents who sent you to Philips Exeter and then Harvard and been friends and roommates with who Zuckerberg had been, you would be a wealthy banker, professional, or with luck-- Facebook founder. My best friend in the Army was a Philips Exeter cat who rebelled against his parents and joined the military, married a stripper, drank and fucked his way across a couple of countries, divorced the stripper, got out of the military, went back home with his hat in his hand, got his mom and dad to pay for Marquette, and now he's the CEO of a medical device manufacturing company his parents started. Nice guy. Dumb as hell, but nice.