For example, very few people have the skill to found a company, far fewer have the skill to found a successful company, and fewer still can found a successful company that does anything at all interesting.
Is that true, though? An equally plausible alternative model is that founding a successful company that does something interesting is based upon numerous non-replicable contingent factors that have nothing at all to do with the skill of the founder. If you took Mark Zuckerberg away from Facebook, or Larry Page away from Google, and told them to found another company that would be equally as successful as Facebook or Google, would they be able to do it? I doubt it.
Is that true, though? An equally plausible alternative model is that founding a successful company that does something interesting is based upon numerous non-replicable contingent factors that have nothing at all to do with the skill of the founder. If you took Mark Zuckerberg away from Facebook, or Larry Page away from Google, and told them to found another company that would be equally as successful as Facebook or Google, would they be able to do it? I doubt it.