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Also as humans we are myopic and can only understand everything as a relation to us. His tweet (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129897694984646657) about how you don't need to be rich to run a startup invariably shows that as humans we are poor at judging almost anything out of our current circle of understanding.

The major major thing that makes a startup successful in almost all cases is money. With enough wind even chickens can fly.

There are millions of brilliant people all over the world whose ideas we never see because they never had their opportunity or funding to bring their ideas to life.



> With enough wind even chickens can fly.

This metaphor's impact is as strong as Lei Jun's famous saying, who is the CEO and founder of Xiaomi:

With enough wind even PIG can fly.


> With enough wind even chickens can fly.

Off topic: I'm not familiar with this turn of phrase, but as anyone who has ever chased after free range chickens as a child knows - chickens fly fine with no wind at all. The can only fly a short distance though.




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