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Re:How People Get Rich Now by cupofcoffee on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:29PM (#26783984)
Your intuition is wrong.

Suppose, 10^-9 odds of a startup making 10 billion. Let's assume the other terms are negligible.

E_startup = ... + 10^-9 * 10^11 = 100$ E_faang = 10^-1 * 10^5 + 10-2 * 10^6 + ... >= 10^4

Re:How People Get Rich Now by anonu on Monday April 12, 2021 @11:36PM (#26787877)
> 10^-9 odds of a startup making 10 billion

Intuitively those numbers feel wrong. theres 7bn people on this planet - and only a very tiny proportion might become tech entrepreneurs. So I think your "1 in a billion" chance of being successful is a bit high. Also, who said $10bn was successful? It is just 1 outcome of many...