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> I've yet to see any SV billionaires admit any of their success involves luck.

Are you even trying, or just being glib for karma?

"You have to get lucky in today’s society in order for that to happen" -- Mark Zuckerberg https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/billionaire-mark-zuckerberg-...

"... it's both massively luck and massively hard work. Sometimes it's more luck than hard work, and sometimes it's more hard work than luck. But every success requires both." -- Reid Hoffman https://www.businessinsider.in/linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman...

"I'm a lucky guy. I mean, I certainly had a lot of near misses, but I was very lucky in terms of actually achieving success." -- Elon Musk, CNBC, May 2017




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