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From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill, and this is Hello Monday, a show where I

investigate how we're changing the nature of work and how that work is changing us.

The myth of Silicon Valley is that you might just land early at a startup and strike it rich when that company goes public.

Shares of Google, the company that makes the world's most popular internet search engine,

went on sale to great fanfare today. The offering was the

biggest for an Internet technology company in four years and made its

founders billionaires. And ABC's... But let's face it, this almost never happens.

Instead, people work their tails off for tiny salaries, hoping their stock options turn

into the kind of money that helps with the down payment on a house.

And most startups fail.

Even when they succeed, most people don't arrive early enough

to see a huge payout.

But that myth I was talking about,

it exists because for a tiny group of people luck wins.

This spring as many of Tech's most promising startups

like Uber and Lyft and Pinterest and Slack

are finally going public.

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