[codingdave]

People who get stinkin' rich off startups won an extremely high-effort lottery. If they had won the same amount of money on an actual lottery ticket, would you be sitting there thinking you are wasting your life and should have put your time into buying lottery tickets?

Just live your life. If you don't like where you are, do something about that. But don't compare yourself to others. In general, it isn't helpful.

[andreskytt]

Not necessarily. In a fadt-growing startup scene the chances are significantly higher than a lottery

[dqpb]

Nope. Building a startup is almost completely opposite to playing the lottery.

[randomopining]

So the lottery is purely luck. You're saying the opposite so basically a startup is 0% luck.

What is it then?

[inkeddeveloper]

You missed the point.

[dqpb]

No I didn’t.

[quickthrower2]

In which case startup investors should be getting returns in the 1000s of percent per annum on their entire investment portfolios.