Comment by kickopotomus

8 years ago

I appreciate the metaphor but it still highlights the same crux of the problem. That first passerby got the $20. The next guy that follows in his footsteps gets nothing.

But is that a problem for the first passerby? Do you not read the book because the strategies won't work in perpetuity?

  • > High Growth Handbook is the playbook for turning a startup into a unicorn...

    No, I don't read the book because I don't like books that claim to be selling some secret sauce to success because they are often rife with survivorship bias.

    • Sounds like there’s a few objections: the book is so effective its techniques will be adopted by everyone, and the book is based on flawed survivorship bias so the techniques are unlikely to work.