Thanks, i understand all of it. And it is a fact (for me), that it is easier to be lucky if you are on SV. But my point is that it just sounded as bad advice from her. If all it take is hard work and luck is not a factor, why a lot of startups from her same batch will fail? They should just as smart, hard working and well connected as her.

Anyway, my point actually was more in the line of the comment above (mhale ). Sometimes it is good to quit. Even if you want to get a job for now and lager come back to start up something new again. It is hard to know when, impossible i would say. But the advice never quit seems wrong to me. Speciallly qhen applied to a specific startup.