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> I've picked a startup based only on their business description, where I didn't know a single person, and it IPO'ed in about 18 months.

Anybody can do that once. If you could do it a hundred times in a row, or develop a science of picking startups, I might be more inclined to believe you.

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If anybody could do that once, they'd all have done it already, and most of them wouldn't be posting on HN anymore.

Anybody can do it once, not everybody can do it once. It's just luck of the draw, most won't be able to, but they could.

You seem to think that you profited by sheer force of will and that no luck was involved. Evidence suggests there is an enormous amount of luck involved, in that the best startup investors still fail to profit most of the time. Without knowing more about your methodology, your claims here are akin to suggesting that one should only hire people who win the lottery, because clearly they're good at picking numbers.

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