The reasoning is a bit reductive, it makes sense if you think of success as binary (you become a billionaire or you don’t, which in fairness is what yc and many VC firms push).
Obviously you can fail to become a billionaire and make some non life changing amount of money and even make what to a lot of people is life changing, but for this outcome (which is still uncommon) you would be better off not trying to become a billionaire.
Obviously you can fail to become a billionaire and make some non life changing amount of money and even make what to a lot of people is life changing, but for this outcome (which is still uncommon) you would be better off not trying to become a billionaire.