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veen  ·  429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 11, 2023

I'll do you one worse:

...I think I ended up jumping through the book? Considering I had completely forgotten ever reading it I can't be sure of that though.

One of the things I like about the podcast How I Built This, is that it always ends by asking the person who built a company what degree of success they attribute to luck versus to their skill. It forces haughty CEOs to address the fact that they usually just stumbled into succes, that they got where they are by the help of other people('s money). Either that, or they end the episode by looking like, well, a Ben Horowitz.

There was a time when I ate the entrepreneurial, Tim Ferriss/Peter Thiel/Sam Altman narratives up. You can be anything you want! Go change the world! I'm glad I now know it's just throwing darts. After all, what is ambition but lust on a longer timescale.