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How I Failed: Trying to please the wrong people, with Founder Rob Fitzpatrick

How I Failed: Trying to please the wrong people, with Founder Rob Fitzpatrick

FromSecret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter


How I Failed: Trying to please the wrong people, with Founder Rob Fitzpatrick

FromSecret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter

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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How do you know what to do when you’re just starting out? 
In 2007, Rob Fitzpatrick and his two co-founders, were in their early twenties. They were programmers just out of academia and had an idea for a business. They were accepted to YCombinator in the same cohort as teams like Dropbox and Songkick. They got deals with big companies like Sony Music, MTV, and the BBC, were on national talk shows, got great press coverage and moved to London to be in the centre of their industry. But they died in their fourth year…
What went wrong? Listen to find out. 
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Released:
Dec 15, 2022
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