What makes successful people successful
Alsop Louie VC Alex Banayan explains that the whole “pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps” mentality is not, by itself, enough:
I have a crazy idea: success isn’t just about hard work. We hear about hard work all the time—it’s what Olympic champions talk about when they get to the top of the podium and it’s what the media credits as the sole force behind of multimillion-dollar Internet entrepreneurs. But there has to be something else in the equation of obtaining unimaginable success. What other traits tipped the odds in favor of the world’s most successful people?
