I don't agree with this position. Primagen worked at Netflix. This is already a massively significant luck component. I watched a video of his where he describes how he got his job at Netflix and it sounds like he got very lucky, by his own account. The brand recognition and network effects of having worked at Netflix cannot be underestimated. I'm sure he also got lucky in other ways. When you really dig into stories like his, you can find so many cases where they got abnormally lucky... Many cases where you're reading and think "wow, that's just not plausible, this does happen in the real world." Like reading the Steve Jobs biography, there are so many things that don't make sense... Like when Steve Jobs was young and he called the CEO of some company asking for some electronic component and they sent it to him... I did a lot of this cold calling when I was younger and nobody ever did that for me, even for much smaller companies and asking for much smaller favors.