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Re:The Boring Company [video] by Anderkent on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:20PM (#14224448)
>I'm starting to believe the only difference between those who start their own companies and those who don't is that the latter convinces themselves that it is impossible, never builds anything, and from their own lack of having ever produced anything, concludes that their original supposition was indeed correct.

The latter are also aware of survivorship bias

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Re:The Boring Company [video] by natoliniak on Saturday April 29, 2017 @12:53AM (#14225104)
I don't know if there exists a proper antonym of "survivorship bias" but here is a nice "casualty" list of failed ventures from which plenty of good insights can be taken. https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/

I think that taking advice from those who failed is as important as from those who might suffer from a "survivorship bias". I am sure most of these failed startups initially followed Musk's (et al.) "impossible is nothing" mantra before venturing out into the market.

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Re:The Boring Company [video] by Xcelerate on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:42PM (#14224535)
> The latter are also aware of survivorship bias

While that may be true, it would be interesting to compare the frequencies with which successful founders bring up the topic of survivorship bias vs the rate at which those who never found anything bring it up.

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Re:The Boring Company [video] by ryandrake on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:13PM (#14224664)
A measurement, which itself would suffer from the same bias.
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