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I guess the truer measure of an individual's quality is achieving success repeatedly in different instances. But the payoff may not be as great as simply being in the right place at the right time as you point out. Weighted by the payoff, the old baseball adage is true - it's better to be lucky than good!

I agree that most people underestimate the role that luck and randomness play their careers in tech or other industries. On the other hand, some people manage to transcend that seemingly through sheer force of will, e.g., Zuck, Steve Jobs. I wonder if you had any thoughts on how to reconcile those two extreme views of success?

So if you could travel back in time, would you tell 2012 Antonio to shut up, suck up to Gokul and Boz and just stay on the payroll until all your stocks vested? Or would that be too high of a price to pay, even for F-U money?

It seems like the story would have been less interesting without all the conflict during your time at Facebook, or if you had played along and joined Twitter, but achieved the bigger payoff like your former AdGrok partners. Given the success of the book, are you happy with the way things turned out (so far) or do you have any regrets about the decisions you made along the way?