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Comments like these are why many founders prefer not to share their failure stories so candidly.

It's a well written, extremely well summarized postmortem. Of course it's obvious after the fact what they did wrong. You're shooting at an empty goal and, frankly, it's not very interesting.



I recognize it is easy to take shots at failures and I prefaced it with this recognition.

It feels like this is repeating pattern for delivery businesses, and it deserves harsh criticism. Anything with Uber for _____.

Would you give a pass to Juicero which raised $118M? Doesn't it deserve harsh criticism? Or we want to learn from Juicero's insanely delusional value proposition and may be inspire others to try again? What about Theranos?

I don't give Sprig the same footing for a postmortem than say, Gumroad: https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-...




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