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by mailarchis 3541 days ago
Elon Musk's first successful exit was Zip2 that provided online city guide software to newspapers. Bill Gates sold Basic Interpreter to MITS. How successful would they have been if the first problems they had picked to solve was landing man on Mars and eliminating Polio from the world.

Sometimes, its all right to work on smaller problems until you are ready for the bigger ones.