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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: 0.215s | source

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sahillavingia ◴[07 Feb 19 16:33 UTC] No.19106256[source]▶

>>19105733 (OP) #

Hey, #1 on Hacker News! I don't think that's happened since...I launched Gumroad back in 2011:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614

Thanks HN for being a part of my journey!

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1. sytelus ◴[08 Feb 19 04:17 UTC] No.19111482[source]▶

Just wondering how much of your decision for not starting new venture could be because of burn out. You can always hire your one person replacement to do customer service, fix occasional bugs etc so you move on. Especially if you hunt for good freelancer offshore/remote, you probably can do it with more devs and cheaply. This I wouldn’t recommend for spinning new products but for maintaining existing mature enough products it works out fairly well and lifestyle-level revenue is good enough to do this. Shouldn’t this allow you to move on to new ventures?