• What’s it really like to work at a startup (but also what’s it like to work for an established company) Public Goods/Factmata

• How I got into startups / Why growth marketing

• Angel investing or money laundering? Fast/Monzo

• One current analysis

Public Goods

Longblink

Gocious

Proposal to Amika

Factmata

Wanderlog

Morning Brew

TLDR,…

I got into startups because I liked philosophy and wanted to search for the ultimate truth.

I thought that startups are built by enthusiasts who live and breathe their visions.

Building a startup means creating something that hasn’t existed yet (zero to one) - and isn’t this the search for the (ultimate) truth in practice?

So I thought.

A movie director said recently in an interview that “this world lies on a few dozen thousands of people who are actually working, everyone else is just pretending.” So far in my experience, I’ve found this to be true. In the last four years, I'‘ve gotten to work alongside 20 or 30 people, and only 3 of them actually worked. i didn’t expect this in startups.

So, why do startups fail? If actually working is not a requirement, then what?