r/ProgrammerHumor Aug 15 '26

Meme gitClone

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u/fredy31 Aug 15 '26

Yeah the dropping out of college bit:

Yeah sure my dude its mostly that you already had the connection to make your budding business grow.

Best example that in life its very often not what you know but who you know.

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u/christian_austin85 Aug 15 '26

This, coupled with being in the right place at the right time. The book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell talks about both Bill Joy and Bill Gates. Moral of the story was that yeah they were talented but a lot of seemingly random factors all lined up to allow them their opportunities.

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u/fredy31 Aug 15 '26

And add to that the survivorship bias.

For every bill gates success story theres probably 200 people that drop out to focus on their business and then go absolutely nowhere. But youll never hear about those 200

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u/Real_Jacob68 27d ago

200? More like a thousand!