YouTube began as a video version of an online dating website.
(The)Facebook was a place for Harvard students to post photos of themselves and share class schedules.
In the 1960s, Nintendo made plastic toys, vacuum cleaners, instant noodles, and operated a taxi service.
How quickly we forget the origins of those that “make it.” We often take for granted who they are now, without paying much attention to how they got there.
But if you do, you’ll find that their journey is always much more interesting and uncertain than you might expect. Every path to success is different, but they’re all winding with detours, gambles, missteps, pivots, and lucky breaks.
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
David Heinemeier Hansson
This is both an encouragement and a challenge.
It’s an encouragement to get started. People throughout history have overcome much greater odds than you to achieve their dreams.
But it’s also a challenge to stick with it.
Nothing in life is a guarantee. Nothing, that is, except the guarantee of failure if you quit.
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