Highway to fail, or the story of a predictable failure
summary
A founder recounts creating a startup in late 2017 with two cofounders and closing it in mid-2019, analyzing why it failed. The talk examines mistakes across product, engineering, business, and team decisions and reflects on whether different choices could have prevented the predictable failure, aiming to share candid lessons to help others avoid similar pitfalls.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 8:50Startup origins
- 18:41MVP development
- 27:04Technical derailment
- 34:16Tech choices
- 39:12Commercial failure
- 42:47Personal impact
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