> However, the Sylvania offer is $1 dollar a month higher than the Ford offer. Chang calls Ford and asks if they’ll match the offer. But the person he speaks to is rude and dismissive, refusing to negotiate at all, and Chang gets so angry that he decides to take the Sylvania offer instead.

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That is what Bill gates once said. For all the success he had, he also acknowledged that there was a lot of luck involved as there were a lot of other companies and people that had better technology than Microsoft had but they didn't have the luck to be in the right place.

I had said that if it was just down to technical capabilities/potential and no luck involved, we would be running some form of Amiga systems on PowerPC chips running BeOS. I don't really believe that but it just to highlight that there is a lot that happens outside of pure merit.

Getting the lucky break is only half of it. Recognizing a change as a lucky break and being able to take advantage of it is also important.