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by arder 618 days ago
Well this just goes to the core of your view on the role of luck in life. Are there 1,000 startups coming out of YC every year and 5 of them are run by geniuses who single handedly disrupt loads of markets. Or are there 1,000 startups coming out of YC every year full of roughly equally good people 5 of which get extremely lucky and make boatloads of money.

Airbnb just forked hotels, Stripe just forked Visa.

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> Stripe just forked Visa

Clicking a button on GitHub is different from existing in the same industry.

Unless I am missing an Apache licensed code base that powers all of Visa…

> Airbnb just forked hotels, Stripe just forked Visa.

uhh this is not the same as TFA. this is a very quippy, pg-esque way of excusing the behavior though.