Around the start of this year, I did around five interviews for a 160k role, then got ghosted for about two weeks before getting rejected for "not being a start

Around the start of this year, I did around five interviews for a 160k role, then got ghosted for about two weeks before getting rejected for "not being a startup culture fit". I think they just liked someone else better and gave me a generic reason, but it hurt that I got all the way to the final stage of the application process and still didn't make it. Delayed my job search by about a month, made me dream up all sorts of future plans that I'll never actually be able to afford. Devastating.