Lessons From A Failed Startup
Perry Ogwuche who was previously a YC founder talks to other founders from the YC community and beyond with inactive companies to learn from their stories and unique experiences with running a business that they eventually had to shut down. Lessons from a failed startup podcast focuses on the stories of entrepreneurs who have started businesses that are among the 95% of businesses that don’t quite make it to the finish line.
Episodes
14 episodes
Will investors invest in a founder who has had a failed startup? w/Nathan Lustig of Magma Partners
Nathan Lustig, the managing partner of Magma Partners, a seed stage investment fund, shares his perspective on how he views founders with a failed startup under their belt.Learn more about Nathan:- Blog: https://www.nathanlustig.com...
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Episode 15
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35:44
The importance of building your company for customers and not investors w/Praful Mathur
Praful Mathur shares his experience with building a YCombinator company and loosing his co-founders and biggest investor in the process. https://www.linkedin.com/in/prafulmathur/
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Episode 14
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52:48
Getting back to the workforce after shutting down a company w/Ayush Kumar of Vitrix Health
Ayush Kumar shares his experience with shutting his company and trying to get back into the workforce afterwards. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akumar0630/
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Episode 13
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44:14
Shutting down one company and getting an acquisition offer the next day w/Peer Richelsen
Peer and I talk about his experience with shutting down his company Mage and getting an acquisition offer for his newer company Lean Hire, from On Deck, the very next day, which was when we recorded this episode. Peer now serves as...
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Episode 12
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1:02:53
Why Glio, the first Latin American company in YC shut down with João De Paula
João De Paula previous co-founder and CTO of Glio, the Amazon market place for Latin America shares his story about building the company and having to shut it down after 6 plus years of running it.
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Episode 11
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58:48
Shutting down a growing business at it's peak with Gaurav Maken of Mylk Guys
Gaurav Maken, previous co-founder of YCombinator's Mylk Guys shares his experience with building a growing business that he had to shut down at the height of their growth. Gaurav talks about the importance of focusing on what matters for your b...
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Episode 10
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45:28
The story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin Hayhurst
Colin Hayhurst a successful entrepreneur , and startup mentor, shares his experience in starting and shutting down the YCombinator backed company GoScale that he co-founded with James Cunningham. Th...
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Episode 8
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46:38
Being okay with the fact that your startup idea might be a bad idea and the importance of a good network
Renji Bijoy, founder and CEO of ImmersedVR talk about his company AraJoy which pivoted to becoming Immersed. He talk about the process he went through to realize that his initial ideas was bad and that he needed to pivot. He also talks about hi...
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51:19
Having a great idea and $1million and still needing to shut down. Discussing founder market fit w/Pranshu of Prayas
Pranshu, co-founder of Prayas Analytics- the google analytics for retail stores talks about the importance of founder market fit. He discusses his experience with shutting down Prayas after not being able to get any "real" customers even though...
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Episode 5
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40:00
Learning from multiple failed ideas before building a multimillion dollar business with John Coogan of Soylent
John Coogan, co-founder and former CTO of Soylent shares his story publicly for the first time about his failures before Soylent.
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Episode 4
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48:19
Fake traction and the fear of failing with Kristen Fang, co-founder of StrattyX (TechCrunch Disrupt & YCombinator)
Kristen Fang, previous co-founder of StrattyX, a trading interface that allowed you set up sophisticated “if-this-then-that” rules and execute orders on the stock market, talks about her experience with shutting down the company after being in ...
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Episode 4
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47:52
MoveLoot raised $22m & shut down 3 years later. Here's the story w/co-founder Shruti Shah
MoveLoot was an online market place to buy and sell used furniture. They were part of YCombinator's winter 2014 batch. MoveLoot experienced a lot of growth and expanded to multiple cities including NY and LA. They raised multiple rounds of fund...
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Episode 3
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48:46
The story of YCombinator's Dropleaf (Netflix for video games) and why it failed, with Co-founder Vikram Rangraj (CAO @ Rize presently)
Vikram Rangraj and his co-founder had a really awesome idea to build Dropleaf, a video game subscription service for all you can play video games. Essentially Netflix for video games. They got into the prestigious YCombinator in 2017 and ...
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Episode 2
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54:19