Well, unless you're in a extremely third world shithole, or you're some sort of ridiculous statistical anomaly in the first world, the true secret to success is

Well, unless you're in a extremely third world shithole, or you're some sort of ridiculous statistical anomaly in the first world, the true secret to success is (and was) always determination, hard work, and patience. Unfortunately, it's not much of a secret, it requires a lot from the individual, it stinks of republican ideology, and therefore isn't a very sensational topic to write a tech-crunch hype (redundant) article about. Plus, on some level, it offends people's idea of fairness and causality because there is some in-determinism involved such that 80 units of hard work on say Mark Zuckerberg = billion dollar public corporation, while 8000 units of hard work on you = only a humble small business.