• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I dunno, man, we could probably get into an entire dissertation about this, but I’m not totally convinced that most of these fabulously wealthy people didn’t just fail upwards by throwing the spaghetti plate at the wall; the only difference between them and us is that, often, they start with a lot more spaghetti to throw

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      6 days ago

      Pretty much all of the three digit billions crowd are in tech of some description. There’s definitely an element of being in the right place at the right time, but there’s also a lot of business skills as well.

      A lot of their success seems to be recognising an opportunity before anyone else, whether that’s luck or skill is difficult to know.

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        A lot of their success seems to be recognising an opportunity before anyone else

        Pretty much everyone in the world has at some point in their lives had some idea or spotted some gap in the market that could be a successful product, but 99% of us don’t get to act on that because the rent is due and will be due again next month.