If 1,000 CS grads found startups attempting to solve a problem they each have, are they guaranteed success? Or will there be five outliers which exit for billions and then tell everyone all they need to do is to solve their own problems?

Telling others to solve a problem they have seems more like an algorithm to generate at least some successes by guaranteeing diversity. This million monkeys approach is a strength of capitalism, but I wonder if it's the method which maximizes expected value for a would be founder. It seems more of a method to guarantee a minimum return for a VC.