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This starts off sounding like it's going to be a fascinating story about how lotteries are designed, and how a smart person with a lot of persistence and an understanding of statistics can exploit tiny deviations from randomness to their benefit.

It becomes clear after a dozen or so paragraphs that it's some meaningless pseudo-profound bullshit about "the power of taking control of your life". Don't waste your time reading it.

The question that most people are interested in is

  P(Success | Number of Founders)

but what the article has answered is

  P(Number of Founders | Success)

for a couple of different metrics of "success".

They are not the same question! In particular, the average number of founders for a successful startup might be low, but the chances could still be better with more founders.