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Re:Inside the Billion-Dollar Hacker Club by jmduke on Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:29PM (#7330374)
Can a similar argument be made about the PayPal Mafia? Is there a lot of investment cross-pollination within the members, or is it more just a general sense of "lots of clearly forward-thinking people made lots of money and continue to be forward-thinking/making lots of money", a sort of reverse Seinfeld curse?
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Re:Inside the Billion-Dollar Hacker Club by danielweber on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:59PM (#7330736)
If you work backwards, starting with people who have successful exits, you will find occasional intersections on mailing lists or IRC channels or meetups or model railroad clubs.

This doesn't mean that list or whatever caused the success. This is the same problem epidemiologists face when trying to explain cancer clusters.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

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