Yeah, this is the bulls^H^H^H^H^Hstory that perpetuates that mythos, too.

> persist and get lucky with a good team and a good market angle at the right time - is a very potent moral.

What we should take away is that there is money to be wasted. A lot of money (which is not going into employees pockets). If someone was willing to give a billion dollars for a press of a bag of juice that could be squeezed by hand, a useless product, imagine what can be had if you have an actual product.