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by threeseed 899 days ago
Schmidt was the CEO of Novell which was a well known company at the time.

And Google was a pretty unsafe bet.

It's easy to say in hindsight that these people were lucky but at the time most of the founders you list made bets that were pretty unorthodox.

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Yes. To the person alleging "luck":

what things have you said or done lately that will look incredibly stupid in 30 years?

Trick question. You don't know, do you?