Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by flashman on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:16PM
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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
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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.