[iwontreddit]

Or they aren't any smarter or dumber than anyone else but just got lucky to hitch a ride on a rocket. Success is more about being at the right place at the right time rather then being the right person.

It wasn't nikesh, marissa, vic, larry or sergey that was important. It was the idea of google.

> - it comes from teams.

Even if you moved the entire team to softbank, it's not going to change much. Google was the right idea at the right time. Has nothing to do with "culture,people,etc". Lots of tech companies have the culture of google.

In other words, somebody has to be google, somebody has to be facebook, apple, microsoft, etc. We just think that some people have some magical secret or some magical talent. But it's just a simple matter of somebody having to win and everyone else having to lose.

[perseusprime11]

Good point.

> Success is more about being at the right place at the right time rather then being the right person.