Let us say you start at 20 and end at 50, you only have 6 'startup adventure' chances that can work their way through.
If each have a %1 chance of success, it's very likely that the 6 adventure person wouldn't have much to show at the end of it.
Ending up an equivalent of mr. bullet ball is horrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHwNiXgnh0
Because of survivorship bias, you usually never hear about these people.
Many people also try only 1 or 2 adventures, and if unsuccessful go into normal employment. But you jump off the 'potential exponentiation train' that sama describes by doing that, and you've lost out on 5-10 years of potential compound savings growth, which for many who can work at FANG instead means a million or two.
You also get to learn a lot and do fun stuff at FAANG employers too.
