I sometimes see the argument that because SKS is the son and grandson of entrepreneurs, that he inherits a peculiar advantage of some kind. He is more likely to be successful because he has the kind of brain or is witness of a culture which is likely to make him successful.
This is a curious claim.
First, success is in large part due to circumstances and the emergence of demand amongst customers, both of which may be unpredictable. Good ideas fail all the time. Bad ideas are sometimes successful for some reason or another, especially in the short run. Luck is important.
Second, it is by no means clear that the skills of entrepreneurialism pass across generations. Children always have very different capabilities from each of their individual parents. Circumstances form people in different ways. So there is no obvious genetic or environmental reason to suppose skills pass from fathers to sons.
Third, the skill of entrepreneurs may include the ability to recover from serial failure to take advantage of eventual success. It may be that a person invests in one of the many failures rather than the single successes.
This isn't a comment upon SKS. It is an observation upon an argument which, it seems to me, is self-evidently specious. People do rely on the funniest ideas.
If Wave eventually succeeds, it won't be because grandpa's seed made Steven flower.
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