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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: 0s | 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. aeriklawson ◴[08 Feb 19 00:08 UTC] No.19109985[source]▶
But would you trade the amount of time spent at Pinterest before IPO with the experience you gained at Gumroad? Tough call, given the professional and personal growth you gained from it.