On Successful Startups

There is one distinct thing that stands between successful startups and failures.

This is based on my own experience, listening to the inside stories from the Valley, talking to multiple startup founders as well as to a few of FAANG early employees. It is the only advice I am comfortable giving that I am confident will increase your odds significantly and outweighs every other factor I am aware of:

Be lucky.

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