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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: 0.2s | 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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1. austenallred ◴[07 Feb 19 17:34 UTC] No.19106742[source]▶
Probably a fraction of that. Dilution etc.

My guess is he’ll make more from Gumroad over the long run.