If you fail at something, you are somehow stigmatized. There is also a problem if you are too successful. Osing paid another price for success. A lot of good people who worked with him in developing TeleBackup were affected by the takeover by Veritas Corp., event though the individuals did well financially. And while his mother was able to share her son s success, he was saddened at the loss of his father just before TeleBackup became a star in the technology world.
Success always starts at home.
I had great parents and many good friends who I could always turn to. I was putting in incredible hours and not achieving much success at first. Every time things started looking really bleak, my wife and I would just drive around at night and talk things through. It helped a lot. My father instilled in me the idea of being independent, so I always wanted to create my own companies.