If you come to that conclusion I think you're more far out there than me -- in not taking clues from context.
It's obviously not saying that he had random meetings in their content and in who was present and that these somehow created his billion dollar company.
Just that the meetings he did have (the "right" meetings with the "right" people) were made possible due to lots of chances and random stuff happening first.
First random factor: if he was born in Alabama from a poor family instead of upper middle class NY family, his chances of having those meetings would be less than half. I'll let you calculate the changes for that happening if he was born black in Nigeria.
Never mind poor black families in Alabama. What was Zuckerberg's chances of breakout success if he was born into an upper middle class NY family just as before but opted to go to a less prestigious university which already had a decent photo-sharing service or message board? Higher than the average person certainly, but higher than the average HN-reading startup-enthusiast developer?
>Just that the meetings he did have (the "right" meetings with the "right" people) were made possible due to lots of chances and random stuff happening first.
Okay then, lets get to specifics. Which meetings are those? Whom did he meet with? What makes you think they were with the "right" people? Who are the "wrong" people to meet with? Also, What makes you think that the meetings were only possible due to chance and would not have happened otherwise?
>if he was born in Alabama from a poor family instead of upper middle class NY family, his chances of having those meetings would be less than half.
How have you calculated the chances? Could you elaborate?
>I'll let you calculate the changes for that happening if he was born black in Nigeria.
I'll gladly do the work if you show me how YOU calculated it in the previous case.
Listen, I'm OK with general arguments and using rhetoric to drive a point. But understand that, your argument consists entirely of your own personal opinion, and people do not have to agree with you on anything. In fact, you then cannot tell someone that their opinion is wrong, if they disagree with you.
>How have you calculated the chances? Could you elaborate?
Just divide all billionaires or multi-millionaires you know by region and family background.
>I'll gladly do the work if you show me how YOU calculated it in the previous case.
I checked the top 100 richest people, and saw that people born in western countries are overrepresented -- especially US who is mere 4% of the global population but has almost all spots in the Top 20 (and further down).
Either those billions Asians and Africans are lazy sods, or external reality plays greater role that the "great determined unicorn" man...
And even in the US, those blacks, latinos, LBGT must be really lazy and incompetent, because they hardly make a dent in the top 100 most richer, despite the demographics (which show they are a huge percentage of the US population).
It's obviously not saying that he had random meetings in their content and in who was present and that these somehow created his billion dollar company.
Just that the meetings he did have (the "right" meetings with the "right" people) were made possible due to lots of chances and random stuff happening first.
First random factor: if he was born in Alabama from a poor family instead of upper middle class NY family, his chances of having those meetings would be less than half. I'll let you calculate the changes for that happening if he was born black in Nigeria.