There are hundreds of thousands of hard workers (probably millions) that are smarter than him that will never become billionaires. The difference is: he got lucky.
This is the nature of survivorship bias.
So...back in 1993, when Jensen Huang was founding Nvidia, how many of those million-ish "smarter" people had any real interest in founding a graphics card company? Or any sort of company, period?
Yes, luck favored him a number of times, to make it to $8e10 net worth. If he was only worth a measly $8e5, would you have some other reason(s) to sneer at him?
> how many of those million-ish "smarter" people had any real interest in founding a graphics card company? Or any sort of company, period?
That's not the right question. The right question is: how many of those even had the opportunity to do this? I'd doubt it's more than a single digit.
He made it. Congrats to him. But we don't know why he made it. No, it wasn't because he "suffered". It wasn't because he worked hard. We quite simply can't know.
If you can't attribute his success to what he is saying, it's not relevant. Now that he made it, he can proclaim it was any of his millions of choices, but by definition it cannot be a few generic choices, because many more made the same choices and never made it.
Luck is a stub for all of the infinite choices and events that conspired for him to be where he is today. It's nice to pretend it's hard work that leads to success (or in this case "pain and suffering"), but it's most definitely not true.
"Luck" is often a reason given by losers. It's the argument that shifts blame away from their own poor, often stupid decisions. It's used by losers when it comes to starting and running businesses, just like it's used by losers who failed to buy-in on cryptos or stocks when they were low.
"Oh, your business actually took off? You got lucky!"
"Oh so btc hit 69k? You got lucky."
They talk as if they had any clue whatsoever (because to make the assessment you need to understand the matter at hand), but if that was the case, they'd be amongst the actually objectively successfull people.
So ... yeah, right. I didn't make the right decisions at the right time to make sure [project] works out, after doing lots of research. No, I just got lucky. I didn't put hard work into [my project], I just got lucky.
Fuck. You.
It's not luck. No. It's simply not being a clueless loser. It's "putting hard work into reaching your goal". It's "not giving up". It's "standing your ground against the losers who want you to fail".
If these people you're mentioning, were so smart, they'd be rich.
Now take a good fucking guess why they're not.
How many people working 3 jobs you know are billionaires? Even millionaires? Are those not hard working people?
Yeah, citing crypto, which is literally gambling, tells me the kind of argument you have.
Not sure why the personal attacks are necessary.
Can folks who downvote please explain why?
Because survivorship is a real thing and becoming a billionaire isn’t just down to hard work or resilience.
The point is: he's no more qualified than anyone else. Whatever he's saying is simply not reproducible and most certainly not what made him a billionaire. Otherwise we could all just replicate whatever any billionaire does and inevitably become one. That's not how it works though, is it?
It's easy to say it was hard work that got you there after you're the 1e-20% that made it.
On the other hand to what you're saying
He had to make fuckton of decisions over his whole time as a CEO and that's where it brought him, so he definitely had at least some idea, vision, direction supported by some traits.
If you get billions of smart hard working people, you still only get a few hundred billionaires. The only differentiator is luck.
You're one of the lucky that could migrate, went to the right schools, met the right set of people, were born in the right year and so on.
It's purely the logical conclusion. Some people get inspired through quotes like that, and it's probably good to lie to yourself that your hard work will inevitably pay off. But we should all know that it's ultimately a lie.
There are no billion equal people.
There are other differentiators than just opportunity: environment, background, culture, childhood, experience, vision and maybe traits.
>It's purely the logical conclusion. Some people get inspired through quotes like that, and it's probably good to lie to yourself that your hard work will inevitably pay off. But we should all know that it's ultimately a lie.
That's not a lie, it just doesn't guarantee success. But it increases probability (when you talk in general, not some specific person).
