> With a lot less effort, you can get a kickass job earning two hundred grand a year.
This is exactly why you can succeed. Instead of making someone else a lot of money and them giving you a $200k cut you can do their job as well and collect all the money generated by your effort.
Being the next Zuckerberg might be a lot like being the next Bruce Willis, but creating a small web software business with the ambition of making a few million over the course of years is not. And the big payout for most small businesses is when they sell to someone who already has money but wants a proven business (to add to their existing business usually).
Being the next Zuckerberg might be a lot like being the next Bruce Willis
I don't imagine having to worry about this any time soon, but if anyone described me as "the next Zuckerberg", I'd need three or four strong people on hand to restrain me from getting in a fight.
I don't like Mark Zuckerberg much or find him remotely impressive, but it's not even the comparison so much as the diminutive connotations of "the next". If you're truly great, you're not "the next" anything. FDR was not "the next Lincoln", and Obama (whom I expect to be our generation's great president) is not the "next FDR" or "next Kennedy". I believe he has the potential for FDR stature and Kennedy charm, but he is and is going to grow into someone entirely new and singular.
This is exactly why you can succeed. Instead of making someone else a lot of money and them giving you a $200k cut you can do their job as well and collect all the money generated by your effort.
Being the next Zuckerberg might be a lot like being the next Bruce Willis, but creating a small web software business with the ambition of making a few million over the course of years is not. And the big payout for most small businesses is when they sell to someone who already has money but wants a proven business (to add to their existing business usually).