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Plus if you fail big and spectacularly, you’ll always fail upwards. Fail small and no one cares. Messed up, but that’s how the world works.
by rajacombinator 8y ago
Plus if you fail big and spectacularly, you’ll always fail upwards. Fail small and no one cares. Messed up, but that’s how the world works.
- confiscate 8y agoI don't quite understand this. 2 scenarios: 1. Juicero who burned through $118 million with nothing to show for it 2. bootstrapped startup with $0 funding that made profits It sounds like you would rather be the founder of #1 and not #2? Why though
- rajacombinator 8y agoRaising $118 million and building a company of that size is a big accomplishment regardless of whether the company was a punt or not. I can assure you those guys have no shortage of lucrative post-Juicero opportunities. They’ll probably make more than the typical bootstrapper over the same time period.
- confiscate 8y agointeresting. What kind of lucrative opportunities would they have? As a fundraising-consultant? Because I am curious as well