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There is no magic recipe for success and frequently people find success via luck, hacks, etc.

In my experience, telling passionate potential founders if they never try they’ll never succeed leads to dark patterns in more than a few situations; for example, currently aware of a founder that left a good job to throw money and time at a startup even he clearly explained himself is doomed to fail. Personally seen people treat startups like a gambling addictions, pipe dreams that are clearly not based on any objective observable reality, etc.

In fact, comment you replied to referred to FedEx founder story of them gambling in Vegas to save the company with the last of the company’s funds. This is not the type of healthy, level headed, culture the startup community needs.