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cyclotron3k on March 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Here's the number I used to win the lottery“ –Ent...

There's also a lot of survivorship bias. We don't hear about the entrepreneurs who had X failures and no successful exits. There must be some (a lot?)

oxfordmale on March 5, 2023 [–]

Yes, there are surprisingly few people here owning up they failed trying and are now working in a Mcdonalds' or Wendy's

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