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Not true. There are stories. Sublime Text is one of them. I am sure author of that project made good chunk of money. It used to be the most popular text editor for a while (based on StackOverlow).

I personally have another example. Own MM B2B.

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There are also stories of people starting trillion dollar businesses from their garage. Yes you can technically do that. The chances of you actually doing it are ~0.

I believe the OP was talking about the personal projects. Not startups or people who want to make a trillion dollar businesses. I believe there is different mentality behind those.

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