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> Most people I talk to seem to act like J.K. Rowling and Richard Branson are outliers. They made it big under circumstances that would crush most of us.

Perhaps there's lucky breaks and rare opportunities.

What was it Bruce Sterling said a while back? "You can be Microsoft but someone has to bend over and be IBM."



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