Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)

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You should be proud…you’ve learn the difference between the pursuit of value vs. the pursuit of valuation. Congrats.

well put.

And then he went to work for DOGE.

And here's the story about why.

Why I joined DOGE: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/1254121714/doge-staffer-sahil...

Seems to be a very forthright fellow.

> LAVINGIA: That's another thing I learned. It's not like-- there's no easy wins. The government is not corrupt. The government is really not wasteful. The government commits to doing a lot of things for its citizens, but generally, it executes on them decently well, full of amazing, hard-working, educated people. Is it too nice to those people? Maybe. Is it too nice to citizens? Maybe.

“The government is too nice to its citizens” is not a take I was expecting today. That’s… bizarre.

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