Suhail Kakar
@suhailkakar
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What Failure Taught Me
Ten years ago, I had to shut down GigaOM, a company that carried my name and, for a long time, I thought was my legacy. Looking back now, I can see how that spectacular, public failure transformed me in ways I couldn't have imagined at the time.
The first lesson? Time really is the greatest healer. A told me it would take at least three years to get over such a loss, and he was right. By year five, I had become a better person precisely because I had failed so publicly.
Failure taught me the empathy I needed to become a better investor and mentor to other founders. After all, unless they're psychopaths, most founders are simply trying their best in imperfect situations to achieve perfect outcomes. 1 reply
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i might not be getting a second date, but at least she now knows about bitcoin, ai agents, zkEVMs, how rollups work, why we need layer 2s, layer 1 vs. layer 2, modular vs. monolithic blockchains, mev, intent-based architectures, and account abstraction 1 reply
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