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Have you considered that you’re a common denominator in your half dozen examples? How could they all fail the same way with different people to blame?


There are plenty of other experiments.

One failed because nobody wanted to fund it, right during a crypto boom. It might be a bad idea too. Who knows? But everyone moved on to better projects.

One failed because we tried to clone Blue Apron but local logistics and payment infra wasn't mature enough.

One failed because of scope creep.

One failed because the CEO was bullshitting investors and they pulled out. It may not be related but probably is.

Some failed because I was the lazy one who didn't feel good about committing.

All of those did not fail from lack of hard work. But they're less interesting. Laziness is the one I'm really pissed about. It's also possible they'd fail later, but they did not get that far.

There's successes too, but that's off topic.


I got the idea that those were good ventures for parent poster but not for those partners. Then those partners gracefully withdrew, maybe they knew more that parent poster.




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