Every time someone succeeds, people call it out for good luck.
In the case of Steve Jobs, that takes a lot of good luck. Good luck repeated reliably over the course of his life.
It's funny how good luck falls more on people often who work hard...
In the case of Steve Jobs, that takes a lot of good luck. Good luck repeated reliably over the course of his life.
It's funny how good luck falls more on people often who work hard...
There were at least a million other people who started in about the same situation, and worked just as hard, and made similarly risky calls. They didn't get heads all the way, and now you're not reading their autobiography or talking about them on HN.
Don't discard your priors.
It would seem Apple had several low level failures (Lisa, iMac mouse, G4 cube), but his big bets (iTunes, iPad, iPhone) always seemed to pay off.
"Chance favors only the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur