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An example that you don't have to just be smart and hardworking in order to succeed in business. You need to be lucky as well. MySQL was the right product at the right time.

Edit: Forgot the "just to be smart and hardworking"



I assure you that MySQL-the-company was absolutely filled with very smart and very hardworking people.


Sorry, my bad. I forgot to the "just". You don't have to just be smart and hardworking.




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