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Hey I am on Medial • 22h

Ritesh Agarwal wasn’t born poor—he came from a business-minded Marwari family in Odisha. His father ran a business, providing financial stability, private schooling, computer access, and an English-speaking home. The "college dropout" story sounds bold, but he could afford to fail thanks to a safety net. At 17, he started Oravel with family support. Failures were lessons, not losses. At 18, he got the Thiel Fellowship—a $100K grant not given to random kids, but to those already privileged. He quickly pivoted to OYO and secured VC funding through networks. Real dropouts work minimum wage jobs. Ritesh had the freedom to dream big without fear. That’s not luck—it’s privilege.

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Vikash Singh

Hey I am on Medial • 8h

Although a healthy criticism is good and to be honest, a lot of successful people never realise how much their privileges worked behind their so-called struggle. Privileges like family's financial and moral support, Ancestral wealth, their CASTE (if in India), race, ethnicity, religion, gender, connections etc., they might not know or deliberately ignore their privileges, and only tell motivational stories about their success to youngsters through hard work. So, overall, the crux of all this is never get demotivated if you fail in your life, and start giving fault to yourself if you think you gave your 100%. There may be no required privileges you had that would be necessary for your so-called success in that area. Just change the process to achieve that goal or change the goal.

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