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by light_triad 473 days ago
Sure luck plays a role. There are techniques to increase your odds of getting lucky though.

Sam Altman argued a startup's chance of success is “something like Idea times Product times Execution times Team times Luck, where Luck is a random number between zero and ten thousand”

A lot of the success in startups is not due to getting the initial idea right, but what founders do once they realize that their initial idea is wrong.