@dqn Sort of misrepresents the stories of each of those companies as well.
Apple might have "started in a garage", but it actually started at a megacorp Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked at doing basically the same thing.
Google might have "started in a garage", but it actually started at Stanford university deep in silicon valley.
Amazon might have "started in a garage" but it actually started with a vice president at a wall street investment firm (named Jeff Bezos).
It wasn't listed, but Microsoft "Started in a garage" but it actually started with Bill Gates rich well-connected parents.
Necessity is the mother of invention, but opportunity is the father. For every Amazon where it started with a leg up due to having an owner with deep connections, there are literally ten thousand people tinkering in garages who fail to achieve monetization, and one hundred thousand people tinkering in garages who fail to launch period.
I'm not saying this to demoralize people. I'm saying it because we all have fundamentally different opportunities and the only way to capitalize on what you've got is to stop looking at what other people did and start looking at what you can do with your own resources and your own opportunities.
Apple might have "started in a garage", but it actually started at a megacorp Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked at doing basically the same thing.
Google might have "started in a garage", but it actually started at Stanford university deep in silicon valley.
Amazon might have "started in a garage" but it actually started with a vice president at a wall street investment firm (named Jeff Bezos).
It wasn't listed, but Microsoft "Started in a garage" but it actually started with Bill Gates rich well-connected parents.
Necessity is the mother of invention, but opportunity is the father. For every Amazon where it started with a leg up due to having an owner with deep connections, there are literally ten thousand people tinkering in garages who fail to achieve monetization, and one hundred thousand people tinkering in garages who fail to launch period.
I'm not saying this to demoralize people. I'm saying it because we all have fundamentally different opportunities and the only way to capitalize on what you've got is to stop looking at what other people did and start looking at what you can do with your own resources and your own opportunities.
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