The butterfly effect is good for millions of years--maybe, but giving Hitler a cold in 1925 definitely would not have altered his trajectory in the least (blah

The butterfly effect is good for millions of years--maybe, but giving Hitler a cold in 1925 definitely would not have altered his trajectory in the least (blah blah blah goodwins law blah blah blah) there's just so many other things at work that most small things do very little to decide the success or failure of a company -- despite all the stories people love to tell about fedex's last $25,000, if the founder had gambled the money away instead of quadrupling it he woulda just found an investor or bank willing to back him and fedex would be in the same place it is today.