Why Companies That Are Lucky Are Doomed

We recently interviewed Sean Parker, the former President of Facebook, and his Airtime cofounder Shawn Fanning. Both believe that a business' success is either calculated or an accident. If it's an accident and the company becomes successful by dumb-luck, it's probably doomed. Fanning used Facebook and MySpace as examples. Myspace, says Fanning, never knew why it was successful. "Having...