> Also claiming you believe you lost out on a billion dollar opportunity is a bit egotistical to say. It's the failure brag. Pretty common ego saving device in

> Also claiming you believe you lost out on a billion dollar opportunity is a bit egotistical to say. It's the failure brag. Pretty common ego saving device in the start-up world. The first rule of a failure brag, is to make it really over the top. Something like: It was a trillion dollar opportunity. We were the first to invent [thing that wasn't very important]. We could have easily smited every one of our competitors, all we had to do is this one thing and poof, weaklings destroyed. I merely needed to wave my hand at them, and I forgot to wave. That's how powerful my wave is. Did I mention we invented [thing that wasn't very important]? It changed the world, a world that was ours to own.