Yes “because wanting something bad enough” is the key to success…

It is a necessary but insufficient step.

Not if you have the connections and funding to start on third base where you can afford not to work and start your business on the side and hire enough people where you don’t have to work hard.

I worked for a startup before my current job where the founders - two brothers - had connections with the governor of a state in the Midwest to get a grant to start a small health care company. Neither of them were technical. They hired a few people in the state as basically QA and then hired a full stack consulting company that did the design, the project management and the development by hiring cheaper labor from India.

Then when they started getting enough revenue, they started bringing the technical skills in house including hiring a very good CTO.

The CTO then hired me as his third technical hire to oversee the “cloud application modernization” initiatives because they wanted to sell access to their micro services to large health care providers.

They sold the company three years after I was hired for 10x revenue. It was only $30 million. But the founders and the CTO I assumed made out well.

I think the people who had been there the longest made in the low six figures. I left ten months earlier and didn’t exercise my options. I might have left about $60K on the table.

Please play the worlds smallest fiddle for me. My next job after leaving the 60 person company was a remote job working at $BigTech in the cloud consulting department where my two year prorated signing bonus was $nice.

Yes some people have it easy. We have all seen this tons of times in life.

So stop comparing yourself to other people. Nobody starts at the same place.

And that’s the entire purpose of the article. “I pulled myself by own bootstraps by calling my parents and asking them to write me a very large check and to put me in contact with someone who could give me a path in”