Fairness doesn’t bear!

CBInsights just released the following stats: 75% of funded startups get orphaned or die along the way. And those are already a small fraction of all startups. On its face, it is pretty disappointing. All that effort and hope – poof! It goes down the black hole.

But Bill Gates says it is ok. I wonder why. Looking at how other amazing things around us come about, there is an underlying theme. As if it can’t be any other way. The vast majority of mutations are harmful. They fail to contribute their tiny step in the marvelous evolution process.  Most sperms fail to reach the egg, the very reason they came to existence. And almost all of the parallel universes collapse right after their big bang. In other words, to create, to bring life, and to thrive towards perfection, there will be a lot of brave victims. Those who choose to fluctuate out of nothingness. Those who choose to swim along 250 million rivals. And those who choose to change blindly in hope of a better fit to their environment. Without them, none of the rest would have happened. Startups live in a safe heaven comparatively.   

 

Is reality indistortable?

In Monza Italy, they banned round fish bowls since they considered that to distort the vision of the fish and the understanding of its surrounding and hence animal cruelty. But how can we tell between our view and a view of a goldfish in such bowl which is distorted and which one is real? Does that question even make sense? If the fish was anything of an authority, could it have banned our view to the world? 

“The reality is in the eye of the beholder”. Says Stephen Hawking