Remember how you said yesterday "survivorship bias runs everything around me?"
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This is just a horribly cynical take, too. Yeah, in order to make a successful business from 'scratch' you'll need people willing to give you a bunch of money. It just so happens that family members are part of your network by default. Still have to convince them to give money.
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Also, their son had previously been an investment banker and had plenty of deep pocket connections. Did he really need their money or was he doing them a favor?
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Still the "you didn't build that" types insist that everyone start at the same line. The "it takes a village" tribe decries a village (family over generations) running a relay race that gets their offspring to better starting places sooner.
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you think their problem might be with the implication that success doesn't require special resources and collective investment is a scam? and pointing out family support is not to decry it, but as evidence that collective investment works? like, in occam's razor terms?
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