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Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years by madeuptempacct on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:01PM (#18081470)
The first one there is way more common than people think. The funny thing is that people will deny it vehemently.

When I got my first "real" job, I wondered how my coworkers, making less than me, were justifying their BMWs and Lexuses. Then I found out that they aren't dumb, they just have 10 million dollar trust funds and having a job is a pre-condition their grandparents set.

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Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years by flashman on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:16PM (#18081514)
Never underestimate the value of being able to forego VC and/or a salary. Allows bigger risks and upside, which combined with survivorship bias makes successful founders look like someone to emulate.
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Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years by hndamien on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:13AM (#18082081)
The thing about the ability to take bigger risks is that it isn't very often noticed or acknowledged by the risk taker since it doesn't seem that apparent that there was a safety net that allowed the risk-taking. The risk taker feels that they would have done it anyway, whether or not that is true.
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