As someone who started a company and had it fail years ago, I still consider that a defining moment in ruining my life today. The knock-on effects are not so s

As someone who started a company and had it fail years ago, I still consider that a defining moment in ruining my life today. The knock-on effects are not so simple unless you have the benefit of tens of millions of dollars of exceedingly wealthy investors' money to play with. Relationships destroyed, people's finances ruined, people that had nothing to do with my company losing their jobs. I was often told my biggest mistake as a founder was that I cared about people rather than money. This post reeks of the privilege of a VC who sells self-help books. https://xkcd.com/1827/ https://xkcd.com/1827/ To put it kindly, I disagree.