Effort does not correlate exactly with results, but the chances of success are high if one tries and is capable.
In both tech and hustle, it's easier with wealth, privilege, connections, luck, and/or friends.
But large swaths of tech and hacking can be done on a $200 netbook or a lab of $100 used notebooks.
The hustle part... That's easier if you have hustle. If you are a geek, make a tool that's needed and sell it to another geek.
I've seen male, female, black, white, mongrel, rich, poor, and those with role models and without success at tech and business. It's harder without but still possible.
And I think SV may indeed be the best place in the country to succeed in - in gambling terms, the result converges faster with the expected value given effort and application.
Particularly (in my opinion) because past failures are discounted and companies, especially startups, are willing to give startups a try without as much suspicion.
In both tech and hustle, it's easier with wealth, privilege, connections, luck, and/or friends.
But large swaths of tech and hacking can be done on a $200 netbook or a lab of $100 used notebooks.
The hustle part... That's easier if you have hustle. If you are a geek, make a tool that's needed and sell it to another geek.
I've seen male, female, black, white, mongrel, rich, poor, and those with role models and without success at tech and business. It's harder without but still possible.
And I think SV may indeed be the best place in the country to succeed in - in gambling terms, the result converges faster with the expected value given effort and application.
Particularly (in my opinion) because past failures are discounted and companies, especially startups, are willing to give startups a try without as much suspicion.