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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: 0.28s | source
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jshowa3 ◴[07 Feb 19 17:48 UTC] No.19106861[source]▶
Honestly doesn't seem like he failed at all. Sounded like just bad times for the business. I mean 2 years of difficulty seems like a minor thing in the grand scheme of the business lifetime. Not only that, the business literally keeps growing if the graphs are to be believed.

Failing is when you can't come back and you close the business.

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1. rchaud ◴[07 Feb 19 19:18 UTC] No.19107623[source]▶
I think that's the point the author is making. The benchmarks for "success" are different if you're in the SV VC-funded startup world. What may be a sustainable 10-person staff e-commerce business would be seen as a failure in some circles because it didn't grow fast enough to IPO, which is all VCs care about.