I love these startup post-mortems that lack all self awareness. Maybe the world wasn’t ready for a $699 doorknobhttps://hackernoon.com/so-close-806b8ae77fa6 …
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@Pinboard more seriously, does it really require $45M and a staff of 36 to establish that there’s no market for a $700 doorknob? Why is there so much dumb money still sloshing around in startup world? These are fun to make fun of individually, but it's a structural problem20 replies 91 retweets 332 likesShow this thread -
The fact that the founder of Otto can write this piece of self-congratulatory drivel, with the warm guarantee that he will fail upwards as a revered 'serial entrepreneur', is also a problem. The cutthroat world of startups is only cutthroat to employees
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Update: the writer of this drivel, a visionary who burned through other people's millions in pursuit of a $700 doorknob, was hired by Apple in February. There is no direction in Silicon Valley to fail but up.https://www.gearbrain.com/apple-smart-home-business-2629271792.html …
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Replying to @Pinboard
“Your job is to sit in this office and tell us everything you did in detail so we don’t make the same mistakes.”
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(the office door has no knob)
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