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by mason55 718 days ago
I don’t think they’re independent events. Bayesian priors would say that if you have five failed businesses then your chances of being successful on number 6 are probably less than 60%
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I disagree. A bunch of founders out there have a string of failures surrounded by their successes.

Here is a list of a few of them: https://press.farm/startups-fail-founders-bounced-back-and-b...

Some of these founders had two or more failed businesses before reaching success.