The Unpredictable Nature of Success #shorts

If you are within a thousand miles of a miracle, take credit for it, right? And one of the things that you'll find in the business world is that everyone takes credit for the success of their organization, right? I work at Google. Well, who the frick cares that you work at Google? You didn't make Google what it is. Even Larry and Sergey or whatever their names are, didn't make Google what it was. They were unbelievably, extraordinarily lucky in timing, and they did a fabulous, fabulous job of taking advantage of that. Don't. Don't get me wrong at all about that part, but, you know, there's this whole myth that people can predict the future. And now, having been with nine startups, I will tell you the. I don't. I don't know of any significant difference between the ones that succeeded and the ones that failed, except for things that could not have possibly been predicted in advance. Because the thing that no one realizes is when a company is started, everyone thinks it's going to succeed. Otherwise they wouldn't be betting on working there or they wouldn't be betting on funding. So.