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A few months ago when Craig posted on YC to gather some ideas about who to invite on YC podcast and how it should be structured and I proposed to invite founders whose companies failed along with the ones whose succeeded. Looks like I yet have to see an episode with YC failure company on that podcast.

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I’m not surprised. The tech/startup world’s relationship with processing failure is not the passion-fueled thirst for knowledge some may think. It’s just a type of of PR and marketing that works well with a certain crowd. It’s implemented with all the same passive inconsistency as anything else out of these departments.

Or that people are just embarrassed of their failures

Not very likely. Many people are happy to share lessons learned from failure.

True, but these are wealthy and calculated individuals we’re talking about. Wealth insulates a person from fear and shame. Intelligence encourages calculation.

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