I think it is not healthy to be critical of postmortems written by founders, in general. * It is usually hard to talk about failures and especially if one has

I think it is not healthy to be critical of postmortems written by founders, in general. * It is usually hard to talk about failures and especially if one has contributed to the failure significantly. * It gives a counter perspective to the rosy pictures painted about startups by the media and tries to right the balance of views presented to the aspiring entrepreneurs. It helps to provide a reality check of what can really be expected and if startup is really the reader's cup of tea. * On a personal level, it is an attempt by the founder to lay it all out and move on. So obviously there is some melodrama in it. Considering that, there are so many people in tech who suffer from depression and never talk about it, and we really have to coax some to take help, now that someone really tries to share their turmoil with the broader community, we should rather be welcoming than critical. After all, no one is going to fail their startup, just to write a melodramatic post on Medium. ;)