Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by brutos on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:05AM (#13442508)

Bill Gates is a good example for OP's lot and luck point:

"In 1980, [Mary Maxwell Gates] discussed her son's company with John Opel, a fellow committee member and the chairman of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other IBM executives. A few weeks later, IBM took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer." [1]

Just an anecdote, but I like OP's point with lot and luck.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates

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Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by zouhair on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:45AM (#13442626)

I would have liked to see what would Gate would have managed to do if he was born in the slums of India not in Seattle, a lawyer as a father and a person in the board of directors of a bank holding as a mother.

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Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by luckystartup on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:40AM (#13444550)

The chance that he would accomplish anything is vanishingly small. But I found this story on Google: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/18-year-old-...

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Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by saiya-jin on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:21AM (#13443264)

easy, nothing to write about

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