I appreciate the metaphor but it still highlights the same crux of the problem. That first passerby got the $20. The next guy that follows in his footsteps gets nothing.
> High Growth Handbook is the playbook for turning a startup into a unicorn...
No, I don't read the book because I don't like books that claim to be selling some secret sauce to success because they are often rife with survivorship bias.
Sounds like there’s a few objections: the book is so effective its techniques will be adopted by everyone, and the book is based on flawed survivorship bias so the techniques are unlikely to work.