So you are telling me these were the only guys ever to have friends and family with that sort of cash to help out ?
Many millions are lost every year by friends and families helping start companies that fail.
Many millions are lost every year by friends and families helping start companies that fail.
As you've seen, there is a huge amount of luck involved as well.
Put another way, every interaction we have with other people, no matter how brief or long lasting, contributes to that person's "luck" based on whether those interactions ended up favorable or unfavorable. If there was a present unconscious bias in a group that slanted the probability of a person's interactions with everyone else in that group (even if it just slanted it a bit) due to a personal characteristic, that would manifest itself as "bad luck" for group of people that had this characteristic who received this statistical slight.