I AM (NOT) A FAILURE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SIX (AND A HALF) FAILED STARTUP ATTEMPTS

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This author goes over lessons from his six-and-a-half failed startup attempts and a failed academic career. His initial foray into startups was after the Google IPO, where he was an early employee. These failures spanned various industries, from networking technology to private jet chartering and financial software, with challenges in execution, market dynamics, and securing funding. The author attributes their current happiness not to financial success, but to self-acceptance and the ability to persevere through repeated failures.