That&#x27;s what I&#x27;m trying (and apparently failing) to get at:<p>For Twitch, being gamers <i>who also ran a video streaming site</i> was a huge unfair advantage, because they were in a position to recognize a trend as it just started.  There was no reason, if you look at statistics or data, to believe that this was a combination worth a billion dollars - that moment had never happened before in the history of business, and will probably never happen again.  There was a lot of reason, if you look at personal experience of them and their early customers, to believe it would be.<p>Similarly, Mark Zuckerburg was a college sophomore at an elite institution <i>who had also built a machine-learning music player</i>.  He had a huge unfair advantage, because he realized what he could do with the personal data of a few thousand students.  I was also a college student at the same time, at an elite college, and was (as a volunteer) involved with writing our own campus social network.  It never occurred to me that it could be a business, let alone a $300B one, because at the time I thought that software companies were things that sold high-performance databases to Fortune 500 companies for real money.<p>What other unfair advantages do Hacker News readers have that they don&#x27;t realize are advantages?