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> If your startup makes your investors billions, you are probably becoming a billionaire in the process or pretty close.

Most startups fail, though.

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> Most startups fail, though.

So do most batters in Major League Baseball.

> So do most batters in Major League Baseball.

VC is the batter, though. They're interviewing people to be their balls.

I wasn't making an analogy to VC. Perhaps an inartful attempt to point out the previous comment's non sequitur.

And some balls get hit so hard that they become successful Baseball players themselves?

No analogy is an exact mapping. But it is true outside observers spend far more time considering the few balls that were home runs than many more that were fouls.

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