This baffles me too, especially when reading that he didn't had a long term vision all these years. That is not only textbook bad but very irresponsible.
Same for the argument that there was a ton of learnings when Pebble failed. Yes, maybe but how is that relevant to other startups? Even for the hardware space, if someone seemingly never managed to get the production pipeline going and never had a vision for the products, how much worth is the advice then? Failing fast and often is not applicable here.
Heck, I got a more or less failed startup, I probably can tell you some stuff but definitely not, how everything works or how to be successful.
SV is a strange place. It feels, it's more important how much money you have (raised) then how successful your company was/is.
Same for the argument that there was a ton of learnings when Pebble failed. Yes, maybe but how is that relevant to other startups? Even for the hardware space, if someone seemingly never managed to get the production pipeline going and never had a vision for the products, how much worth is the advice then? Failing fast and often is not applicable here. Heck, I got a more or less failed startup, I probably can tell you some stuff but definitely not, how everything works or how to be successful.
SV is a strange place. It feels, it's more important how much money you have (raised) then how successful your company was/is.