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by As_You_Wish 1390 days ago
eh, I don't think so.

I've seen lots of problems with solutions but nobody wants to buy.

I've seen someone pick up tumbleweek from their backyard and open an online store and make tens of thousands in a week of opening, and millions a year, selling a product they don't pay for, and it takes minimal work.

I think there's a lot of pure luck in being successful, at all levels.

A lot of successful people chalk it up to pure luck and it is not false humility, either.

Had Bill Gates been born 3 years later, or had his parents not sent him to his exclusive high school and he had no access to computers...so many little things can derail stuff.