Arguing anything other than differences in levels of persistent hard work and skill in your particular field has a large mountain of evidence to overcome.
The effects of those two are very large, the effects of everything else comparatively small per decades of startup and longitudinal entrepreneurial studies.
Nonsense about hustle is exactly that: nonsense. The weight of evidence suggests that, if anything, hustling and creativity have a net negative effect on long term health of a startup.
But there's money to be made keeping up the lie.
Lastly, beware of pseudo-pop-science that opens with only a few people's stories. People manage to succeed as founders all over the world; these stories are not remarkable and tell us nothing.
In general the whole "determination" thing has little to no value in any serious consideration of startup success: it's about on the same level of credibility as diet fads.
The effects of those two are very large, the effects of everything else comparatively small per decades of startup and longitudinal entrepreneurial studies.
Nonsense about hustle is exactly that: nonsense. The weight of evidence suggests that, if anything, hustling and creativity have a net negative effect on long term health of a startup.
But there's money to be made keeping up the lie.
Lastly, beware of pseudo-pop-science that opens with only a few people's stories. People manage to succeed as founders all over the world; these stories are not remarkable and tell us nothing.
In general the whole "determination" thing has little to no value in any serious consideration of startup success: it's about on the same level of credibility as diet fads.