In my opinion, you're fundamentally mis-interpreting the original post. The author is NOT saying that you as a founder care more about your success than, say, y

In my opinion, you're fundamentally mis-interpreting the original post. The author is NOT saying that you as a founder care more about your success than, say, your stakeholders. If you fail, they care, and a lot, because you made them lose money. What the post is saying is that they don't care about you having a story about WHY you failed. Nobody else cares about that. To stay in the metaphor, if you lose a game and your story is "well we have a lot of injuries", the only thing other people will hear is "yep, here's someone who's trying to find an excuse for why he failed". They don't care you have a nice little theory about why you lost. They want you to win. So focus on finding a way to win, not to explain your loss. Whether that's wise advice I don't know. I feel that knowing why you failed is important per se, even if other people don't care.