Highway to Fail
summary
A founder recounts creating a startup in late 2017 that failed and closed in mid-2019, analyzing what went wrong across product, engineering, business and human factors. The talk uses a candid post-mortem to highlight specific mistakes and consider whether different choices—particularly around product-market fit and technical/cloud architecture trade-offs—might have avoided failure.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:28Joining startup 2017
- 11:46Meeting Fairview founders
- 16:44MVP legal definition
- 21:10First months work
- 25:04Website tensions
- 30:06Product tech
- 34:41Haskell lessons
- 38:34Fundraising failure
- 41:27Survival burnout
- 44:42Lessons learned
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