[hcks]

A lot of commenters here are rightly pointing out survivorship biais.

Im even more concerned with the measure of « success » employed.

It seems that the only metric reported here is monthly revenue, which by itself can tell you if a project is further than the idea on a PowerPoint stage, but cannot tell you anything about meaningful success (at a very basic level revenue is not profit, and a few months data don’t tell much).

[robocat]

And there are very profitable companies with failed founders (diluted, expelled, leverage failures, dot dot dot). And failed companies with successful founders (cashed out at IPO, WeWork’s Adam Neumann is a billionaire, dot dot dot)