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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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2101 points jamesjyu | 1 comments | 07 Feb 19 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.195s | source
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sixQuarks ◴[07 Feb 19 15:53 UTC] No.19105943[source]▶
Ouch, number 2 employee at Pinterest - a $10 billion company that’s about to go public this year.

He probably would have been worth an easy 100-200 million.

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sahillavingia ◴[07 Feb 19 15:59 UTC] No.19105991[source]▶
I prefer not to do the math.
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1. kickopotomus ◴[07 Feb 19 17:02 UTC] No.19106504[source]▶
Hindsight is 20/20. A million different factors outside of your control could have led to different outcomes for both Pinterest and Gumroad. Thank you for sharing your story!