The vast majority is hard work on executing a plan, so that you're even in the correct place to take advantage of a lucky opportunity that comes along. Even the lottery requires you to actually buy a ticket at some point. Luck is a part of everyone's lives, but nothing happens without action.
And how do you know what's a wise course for anyone else? There are stories of success and failures everywhere. Learn from them all, and do what you want.
I didn’t say that, and that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about s 24 year old and a $5 billion dollar business. That would make his company one of 227 active unicorns in the world, which frankly makes the lottery comparison incredibly apt.
Winning an Olympic gold medal is similarly difficult but I'm sure you wouldn't say that it's just a lottery and not worth writing about.
Even putting aside the degree to which a gold medal relies on recognition of both measuresble inborn talent and acquired expertise, it’s not very similar. We’re not talking about success being difficult to achieve, so much as a certain scale and type of success being impossible to predict, possessing exceedingly low odds, and being largely random within the pool of “people trying.” If we”re being honest that describes lotteries and this story, and not Olympic gold.
If you think it's pure luck, then that means building (this) business is no different than winning the lottery - which you specifically said wasn't the comparison before.
If it's not all luck, then that means success takes difficult work and odds only further show the challenge in getting to this scale, in which case it's perfectly fine to write about.
So which is it?
"a certain scale and type of success being impossible to predict, possessing exceedingly low odds, and being largely random within the pool of “people trying.”"
Ok...? This isn't relevant, it just shows thats its difficult to get there (with some luck required).
Luck is huge factor in starting a company and making it click but that's universal and nothing unique in this case. It was the case with Gates and Jobs and Ambani but luck was not everything in their cases and neither it is here.
How is writing an article unfair? How exactly does it rob anyone of anything? What possible reality check is given by not having this article?
Every single business is unique and everyone's situation is different. There's no shortcut other than just doing it, and there's always plenty to learn from every story, including this one. Failure is part of the game, and I'd much rather have people be inspired to attempt it, and have a few succeed, than nobody try at all.