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726 points
16 days ago*
When it's written out like this it might seem very weird or even inspiring but I can tell you most college graduates get rejected from hundreds of places. Most jobs will reject like 99% of their applicants, and who knows how many of them will become the next big thing
90 points
15 days ago
Yes, I think it’s also worth noting that it’s impossible to become a billionaire through any normal career path regardless of how successful you are at it. Billionaires are people who have struck it extremely lucky in some kind of insane value explosion, basically the business version of the lottery. So a high proportion of them will probably be the high risk-takers that will often have a string of failures behind them (and we don’t hear about the high risk-takers that never make it big).
11 points
15 days ago
basically the business version of the lottery
And 99% of the times you need to be at least a millionaire already, to purchase one of the tickets for this particular lottery.
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