What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac | Y Combinator
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What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac | Y Combinator
This was an incredibly difficult stretch. Every time something popped up on my calendar I knew it was someone telling me they were leaving the company. These conversations were crushing. All I could think about was finding a way to fix things. We kicked off some really cool product experimentation but we were a Series C company trying to do seed... See more
Joe Fernandez • How to go from being a super hot company to lucky to get acquired in less than 24 months
I ran a TikTok agency on the side and we hit ~$300,000 ARR
We closed it down this week
We had to close it down for a few reasons:
1. It was taking too much time. I have to spend 95% of my time on my startup and even the 5% bandwidth spent on our agency was... See more
David Parkx.comNobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.
Why?
3 yrs ago, @neerajberry and I shut down @Sprig, which raised $60M from @GreylockVC + @socialcapital & grew to $20m revenue.
Then, it all fell apart.
For an... See more
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