Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed

TED talk with clickbait title, now HN clickbait.

It's a "single reason": can someone post that single reason here to save us the time of sitting through a TED talk?

Luck, basically. And taking advantage of luck. Like always.

Yeah, clickbait. The only sentence that matters:

"The number one thing was timing. Timing accounted for 42 percent of the difference between success and failure."

I save you time : timing.