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Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)

• botswana99 1y ago
  You should be proud…you’ve learn the difference between the pursuit of value vs. the pursuit of valuation. Congrats.
  • sriram_malhar 1y ago
    well put.
• ikidd 1y ago
  And then he went to work for DOGE.
  • moreinfo17736 1y ago
    And here's the story about why. Why I joined DOGE: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/1254121714/doge-staffer-sahil-lavingia-musk-va-fired https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/1254121714/doge-staffer-sahil... Seems to be a very forthright fellow.
    • relaxing 1y ago
      > LAVINGIA: That's another thing I learned. It's not like-- there's no easy wins. The government is not corrupt. The government is really not wasteful. The government commits to doing a lot of things for its citizens, but generally, it executes on them decently well, full of amazing, hard-working, educated people. Is it too nice to those people? Maybe. Is it too nice to citizens? Maybe. “The government is too nice to its citizens” is not a take I was expecting today. That’s… bizarre.