Comment by arder
1 year ago
Well this just goes to the core of your view on the role of luck in life. Are there 1,000 startups coming out of YC every year and 5 of them are run by geniuses who single handedly disrupt loads of markets. Or are there 1,000 startups coming out of YC every year full of roughly equally good people 5 of which get extremely lucky and make boatloads of money.
Airbnb just forked hotels, Stripe just forked Visa.
> Stripe just forked Visa
Clicking a button on GitHub is different from existing in the same industry.
Unless I am missing an Apache licensed code base that powers all of Visa…
> Airbnb just forked hotels, Stripe just forked Visa.
uhh this is not the same as TFA. this is a very quippy, pg-esque way of excusing the behavior though.