This reads like a badly-explained piece of Taleb's most recent book "Antifragility". Taleb specifically mentions most of the points mentioned, "the focus on teams" and "learning from past mistakes". Granted, these are obviously a huge part of startups in general, but if you pretend that you knew what a Black Swan was before Taleb popularized the term in 2001, you're a philosophy of science PhD or a liar. The fact that our young blogger gives absolutely NO credit to Taleb's book is disingenuous at best.