A lot of commenters here are rightly pointing out survivorship biais.
Im even more concerned with the measure of « success » employed.
It seems that the only metric reported here is monthly revenue, which by itself can tell you if a project is further than the idea on a PowerPoint stage, but cannot tell you anything about meaningful success (at a very basic level revenue is not profit, and a few months data don’t tell much).
And there are very profitable companies with failed founders (diluted, expelled, leverage failures, dot dot dot). And failed companies with successful founders (cashed out at IPO, WeWork’s Adam Neumann is a billionaire, dot dot dot)
Im even more concerned with the measure of « success » employed.
It seems that the only metric reported here is monthly revenue, which by itself can tell you if a project is further than the idea on a PowerPoint stage, but cannot tell you anything about meaningful success (at a very basic level revenue is not profit, and a few months data don’t tell much).