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Comments like these are why many founders prefer not to share their failure stories so candidly. It's a well written, extremely well summarized postmortem. Of
by skrebbel 6y ago
Comments like these are why many founders prefer not to share their failure stories so candidly.
It's a well written, extremely well summarized postmortem. Of course it's obvious after the fact what they did wrong. You're shooting at an empty goal and, frankly, it's not very interesting.
- systemvoltage 6y agoI recognize it is easy to take shots at failures and I prefaced it with this recognition. It feels like this is repeating pattern for delivery businesses, and it deserves harsh criticism. Anything with Uber for _____. Would you give a pass to Juicero which raised $118M? Doesn't it deserve harsh criticism? Or we want to learn from Juicero's insanely delusional value proposition and may be inspire others to try again? What about Theranos? I don't give Sprig the same footing for a postmortem than say, Gumroad: https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-a-billion-dollar-company-b0c31d7db0e7 https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-...
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