[HN Gopher] My Failure Resume
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My Failure Resume
Author : jimhi
Score : 230 points
Date : 2023-03-16 13:47 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| ipaddr wrote:
| Mixed emotions. Just thinking here.. the build piece you have
| down pat.
|
| Have you thought about investing in a community or many for a
| year or more. Understanding their needs then build products? 90%
| community / rep building 10% building.
| jimhi wrote:
| The profitable projects took 2-4 years each of my life. If
| anything what I learned from this is to move on much much
| faster when it isn't working but leave it up for future
| opportunities to happen.
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| "They ghosted me"
|
| This is unfortunately modern culture, and most seem unconcerned
| how rude they are to strangers. Very foolish policy unless you
| already have over a Billion market cap, and can attract a steady
| stream of junior staff more willing to take flippant abuse.
|
| Rule #23: Don't compete to be at the bottom, as you just might
| actually win.
|
| This also means respecting the content medium, and knowing when
| to bail. =)
| barbarbar wrote:
| Holy sh*t. That list is outright insane. They should be allowed
| to retire and just drink cocktails or something. I would not be
| able to do a tenth of that even if would live 900 years. Amazing.
| pradn wrote:
| I really have to commend this person for just being so energetic
| with just DOING stuff, no matter the failure. I suppose you get
| used to it, making it easy to be "biased toward action". It's
| easier to win when you pull the slot machine so many times.
| billydwilliams wrote:
| I love this! Especially in a professional culture that
| embellishes, misrepresents, and outright lies about failures and
| hardships in order to try to appear more attractive, successful,
| and employable. LinkedIn these days is just one big stream of
| toxic positivity and Stockholm syndrome. It's great to see people
| that are willing to be honest and humble.
|
| Granted, you have to be careful to not have a victim mentality or
| be too self-deprecating to the point that people thing you're
| actually humble-bragging or fishing for pity/compliments, but
| this site seems hilarious. Great work.
| heldrida wrote:
| Hey Jimhi! Thanks for sharing this, I liked it a lot :D Good luck
| with your acting! Have you thought about creating a movie
| yourself and directing? Since I spend so much time
| coding/building as you do, whenever I have some free time I try
| to do some music and been doing the music videos
| https://punkbit.com/audio/desmentira-a-project-inspired-by-m...
| planning to do a movie at some point!
|
| Good luck mate!!
| jimhi wrote:
| This is cool as heck - Yes I did which led to me realizing I
| have no money for cameras and sound and lighting which led to
| the interactive comics website.
| danuker wrote:
| Amazing! I think failures are just as important as successes when
| learning what works.
|
| Unfortunately, many business books just take the top X people by
| net worth and analyze what they did, but that is not enough.
|
| Stated in Bayes' theorem terms: to compute P(success | actions)
| you also need P(actions) and P(success), not just P(actions |
| success) which are the success stories.
|
| P(actions) and P(success) require knowledge from failures as
| well, not just successful actions.
|
| Thanks for the courage of sharing your failures!
| gregalbritton wrote:
| Perhaps the next product launch is this awesome little stats
| dashboard you have.
|
| Make it a personal goal dashboard for concurrent website visitors
| for one's own projects and follower count. Just as you have it.
| It's kinda like Venmo, except for one's own sites/projects/goals.
|
| Personally think this is awesome onto itself. Just that current
| goal bar is a great feature. Subscribe to the goal. Once it's
| reached, subscribers get a note. "see you can do great things,
| Alice just completed her follower goal! Send a note and show some
| love :)"
| shantnutiwari wrote:
| On the one hand, a bit heart breaking.
|
| On the other hand, I wish more people shared their failures--
| otherwise all we see is survivorship bias and people selling get
| rich courses "I made a million dollars doing this ONE TRICK and
| you can too! Only 9 payments of $999.99"
|
| I only have 4-5 failures (compared to his dozens), but then I
| only started 4-5 projects :)
| cosinetau wrote:
| Related https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/30/cv-of-
| fail...
| xigency wrote:
| I like this. It's a bit cheeky but the point still lands. Even if
| you have the greatest startup idea, there are myriad ways it can
| fail, many of which are totally outside a founder's control.
|
| Fail early, fail often still seems to be the best wisdom.
| sanman811 wrote:
| This feels like a good reminder of the obsessiveness (and
| narcissism?) it takes to actually create something successful.
|
| Kudos to him for putting it all out there
| birdyrooster wrote:
| It's a warning how you can waste your life when you don't
| appreciate it and instead are constantly yearning to be in some
| other reality. The end result is you are still mediocre and are
| closer to death with understandings that won't help you.
| jimhi wrote:
| I would like at least one person to see this and think "Man, a
| lot of those ideas are actually pretty dumb and he couldn't
| even pass a tech interview, I could do this better and faster."
| jojosbuddy wrote:
| You started out in Boston Dynamics, destined to fail :) j/k
|
| (The again, everyone I worked with from BD seems has a similar
| pattern after leaving!)
| rusticpenn wrote:
| The best way to reduce failures is to not try at all.
| tdhopper wrote:
| I do this: https://tdhopper.com/rejected
| jimhi wrote:
| That's cool I'll share that if you are cool with it
| notimpotent wrote:
| I don't understand this - have you been (unsuccessfully)
| looking for a job since 2013?
|
| If you've had jobs in between these applications, why are you
| applying for so many new jobs every year?
| cableshaft wrote:
| In the reflections link at the bottom they have the
| following:
|
| > I've been unbelievably fortunate to be continuously
| employed since college, but I'm not sure how to tell you to
| repeat that.
|
| So they've had jobs while they've applied elsewhere. Also
| according to their resume (link at the top) they've had 7
| jobs since 2014, or about one job shift every year and some
| change.
| [deleted]
| Mizoguchi wrote:
| This is much more helpful than reading about success stories.
| Thanks for sharing.
| todfox wrote:
| I'm sure the Lessons so Far list really does work, but it seems
| like mental illness to me. Trying to be entertaining to get
| followers, tailoring your work so that it gets attention, talking
| to the right people on social media and being sure to take their
| side or promote them. It's sickening.
|
| This is why every YouTube thumbnail has a face with bugged out
| eyes and huge fonts. This is why all news is sensationalism now.
| It's all about grabbing attention and getting revenue over making
| or doing something worthwhile.
| julianeon wrote:
| I 99% agree, and I would 100% agree, if it wasn't for one
| thing:
|
| I need money to survive.
|
| Every one of those things you cited, when you remove the levels
| of indirection, is oriented towards making money.
|
| So, yeah. If I didn't have to make money I also wouldn't do
| those things. But I have to, so I do.
| jimhi wrote:
| I thought like you until about a year ago. Marketing is a skill
| much like software development and people much less deserving
| than you are making far more money than you and actively saying
| things that making our world worse. I don't think you should
| dismiss getting better at it.
|
| That said, I don't disagree it's a mental illness.
| koch wrote:
| > actively saying things that making our world worse. I don't
| think you should dismiss getting better at it.
|
| Well now that doesn't sound quite right, either, does it? Get
| better at saying things that make our world worse?
|
| I feel like both you and @todfox here, I hate what it is but
| I also know that it's absolutely necessary. It seems to be a
| lesson I keep relearning. But the ickiness of attention-
| seeking and going for the lowest common denominator really
| makes it hard for me to keep it up.
| nebulousthree wrote:
| > But the ickiness of attention-seeking and going for the
| lowest common denominator really makes it hard for me to
| keep it up.
|
| Attention-seeking, fine, but lowest common denominator is a
| self-defeating assumption. If my thing was making very
| elaborate high quality chairs, I don't have to make a bunch
| of crappy generic chairs to bring attention to the
| elaborate ones. The fear of failure in your niche may drive
| this though. But by doing so you're just growing the
| overall demographic you serve which brings in more people,
| giving you the impression of finally succeeding..but you
| may not get more sales of the product you actually care
| about in the first place: the elaborate chair.
|
| My point is: go for the "denominator" you feel you want to
| address, and be enthusiastically attention-seeking there.
| Pretending to care about other demographics, building
| product for them and supporting all that extra
| infrastructure is soul-crushing
| todfox wrote:
| I agree with you, but any time I've attempted it I just feel
| sick to my stomach.
| silvertaza wrote:
| I love the spirit!
|
| Practically speaking, having a backlog of vast amounts of similar
| data to you, the true way to get out of the loop is to try
| something different. To do the things that wouldn't fit as a data
| point in that list format.
| lazyant wrote:
| I only see one failure here: not using ISO 8601 for dates.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| The list of jobs is _jobs unsuccessfully applied for_ is that
| right?
|
| It can't be a list of jobs that this person did, there's too many
| to make sense. The blog post is not clear.
| jimhi wrote:
| Yes, interviewed with, or put some kind of time investment in
| mittermayr wrote:
| At first I was like, yeah, another one of those "follow my life
| as an indie dev" promos, then I scrolled down to your list of job
| "failures", and it was incredibly interesting to see just HOW
| MUCH some people get done in life.
|
| If you tend to be somewhat critical of self-promos, I'd still
| recommend you take a moment and at least scroll down on that page
| and see for yourself. Very impressive. Just goes to show that you
| can indeed turn the dial well up to 11.
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| Agreed. All that work and website loads up fast and is very
| clear and concise. I did enjoy 'lessons learned' section.
| Frankly, the entire thing is almost inspirational.
| olalonde wrote:
| I was also confused but those are jobs he applied for but
| wasn't hired.
| jimhi wrote:
| Ones I got interviews for and didn't get
| olalonde wrote:
| Even more impressive. Inspired me to get more fails under
| my belt.
| giantg2 wrote:
| I can't even get 10% of the number of interviews. I feel
| like you have little justification to say "In fact, almost
| everything I have tried to do has failed". Clearly you've
| been very successful in general. Much more so than people
| like me.
| jimhi wrote:
| I mean the interviews are like 1 out 400 applications.
| hughdbrown wrote:
| In 2016, you had 45 failed interviews. At a 400-1 ratio,
| you're saying you put out 18000 job applications that
| year? That's staggering. Even at 20-1, that would be
| 1000-ish applications.
| giantg2 wrote:
| Still, seems like you move up. I'm over a decade in and
| still a shitty midlevel.
| circlefavshape wrote:
| My dad never got promoted in 40 years of work. When I got
| my first promotion (to team lead) I had been working as a
| dev for over 15 years and I kinda felt like I had let him
| down
| madamelic wrote:
| What are you doing to move up?
|
| I don't think I am anything special nor was I a super go-
| getter and I've moved up fine in the same time span (came
| in as an ~associate, moved up to senior in ~2 years, got
| principal in 1.5 years, sat around high-level senior /
| defacto tech lead for a few years until I finally got a
| break with an actual lead title).
|
| You are either in too big of a pond (ie: you should work
| in a smaller place to have a bigger impact) or you are
| too focused on your own work to appear as someone worth
| bringing up.
|
| I am not a boomer but if you are a software engineer who
| is wanting to move up past associate and especially
| senior, you need to be looking out for others, mentoring,
| writing documentation on why certain decisions were made;
| something more than just nose in the code.
|
| The adage of "dress for the job you want, not the job you
| have" is kinda true. You don't even have to kill yourself
| for it either. I did the 10+ hour days for a year as a
| junior then I realized no one I wanted to care cared nor
| saw it as a point of pride.
| giantg2 wrote:
| I'm not doing shit now. I gave up a few years ago. I was
| an acting senior dev for a year and a tech lead for
| another. I had great reviews and was performing beyond my
| role. I was involved in stretch assignments/groups too. I
| even had a tech lead from another team I was working with
| send an email to my manager praising my help. Then that
| project was outsourced and I helped bring the sourcing
| team to speed.
|
| I went to another area of the company and volunteered to
| be a security champion (above my level at the time) which
| turns out I was the only one for 6 teams across 2
| departments. I had awesome reviews from the people I
| worked with on this. I volunteered for other assignments
| too and "won" (asshole manager would give teo people a
| task that one person could do to see who would step up).
| I was a regular attendee and contributor at the tech lead
| and manager meetings (like a design/architecture/SoS for
| the app). When I was leaving that team one of the tech
| leads asked what role I was taking on a different team. I
| told them it was a midlevel dev. They then asked why I
| was taking a demotion - they thought I was a senior dev
| the whole time. Maybe just to be polite, but a few others
| echoed the same sentiment at hearing that.
|
| The security and tech lead years were a lot more than
| being in the code. In fact, I was focused on a lot of PM
| related stuff during the tech lead year and feel my lack
| of coding actually hurt me in the future because I was no
| longer coding on a daily basis but doing stuff like
| coordinating, troubleshooting, etc. So then I wasn't as
| fast at actual coding.
| reidjs wrote:
| (Assuming you're a software engineer) You are being paid
| to write code, don't forget that, it's a dream to many
| people.
| giantg2 wrote:
| It's a nightmare to some
| testmasterflex wrote:
| It's pretty evident that Mr Steinberg is extremely
| conscientious
| andrewstuart wrote:
| It should say that in the blog post.
|
| It reads like a ridiculously long list of jobs you took and
| failed at.
| capableweb wrote:
| I don't want to diminish anyone's accomplishments, as I think
| they are impressive too. However, it is worth noting that some
| of these projects are relatively simple and don't require a
| significant time investment. Additionally, some of the projects
| never launched and are counted as "fail".
| jimhi wrote:
| I appreciate you not diminishing my failures. Never launched
| still means I tried to build and failed for various reasons.
| capableweb wrote:
| You mean your accomplishments of failing? ;)
| codazoda wrote:
| Jim, I should have created this. I've failed a lot. Also,
| your domain name makes a lot of sense for me. :P
| jimhi wrote:
| If you do end up creating - send to me
| [deleted]
| giantg2 wrote:
| "In fact, almost everything I have tried to do has failed"
|
| My life in a nutshell. Although I'll contend that the author
| comparatively has no right to say it. It seems like they have
| moved up the ladder and into higher paying roles. I have not.
| michelpp wrote:
| So much awesome fail, sir, I salute you!
|
| "You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be
| profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in
| people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty
| my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for
| me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll
| never learn."
|
| -- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
| DeathArrow wrote:
| Have you ever thought about opening a business to teach people
| how to fail?
| jimhi wrote:
| I would fail at that
| tiborsaas wrote:
| That would be a success, no?
| francisofascii wrote:
| The concept of failure here reminds me of the Tiger Woods quote:
| "Second Place is just the first loser".
| jrussino wrote:
| Looking at the "Failure Resume" at the bottom; it seems massive
| to me! But then I notice that there are as many as 13 entries for
| a single day (e.g. 7/5/2018). What exactly is meant by "failed"
| here? Did you interview at 13 companies on the same day
| (unlikely), or receive 13 rejection letters on the same day, or
| submit 13 applications in a day that received no response?
|
| If I was being critical, I would say this looks like resume
| padding. I would suggest you avoid spreading yourself too thin
| and focus on failing harder at fewer things ;-)
| [deleted]
| wouldbecouldbe wrote:
| When it comes to entrepreneurship the act of creating serves
| someone else, when you are an artist the act of creating itself
| has value.
|
| So if you consider yourself an artist this is fine. If you
| consider yourself an entrepeneur, I will offer the following
| advice:
|
| You take way too little time to build something.
|
| Spend a year per site/idea, not a month.
|
| Take Lazy Reminders. It might be a challenge to be profitable
| with this idea, but to get to a 1000 users in a few months should
| be easy. Could be useful in many ways, but now it looks more like
| a back of the envelope idea that's never been finished, way to
| soon to move on. Make it something a non-developer would use, the
| bar is a bit higher for consumers then coporates. You are
| competing with Google, Apple & Facebook UX-wise. You can go 50%
| less but not more. Corporates are more forgiving, they are used
| to shitty software (SAP thank you ;)) Also. Integrate with users
| existing workflows, at least one: slack / whatsapp etc.
|
| Only after 1-2 years you get a proper understanding of your users
| and you really start to create usefull things they actually need.
|
| Anyway nothing wrong with creating, but if you are measuring
| success based upon usage standard, you should spend more time on
| one project.
| bobleeswagger wrote:
| I think it's a focus thing. Way too many holes to plug at
| current rates.
| qarrington0 wrote:
| Hmm, if only you could add a bit of information.
| jdelman wrote:
| How did he know the CEO of LoyalSnap used his code in production?
| jimhi wrote:
| Interview: Build this feature we want on our website that isn't
| there.
|
| After interview: Feature is suddenly on the website exactly as
| I wrote it.
|
| These guys aren't smart.
| __mharrison__ wrote:
| I love the lessons learned section. Thanks for being so open with
| sharing!
| ptzolov wrote:
| This is so cool! I really love the lessons learned. Keep it up!
| hyperpape wrote:
| One of the items on this website contains very personal
| information about an another person you dealt with.
|
| I don't want to assume this is violation of privacy. Perhaps
| you're on terms with them and they're public about it.
|
| But are they? Because if they're not, I believe you should remove
| it.
|
| (I'm speaking vaguely, because I don't want to repeat that bit of
| information here and make it more immortal).
| anamexis wrote:
| You're speaking vaguely enough that it's not clear what you're
| referring to. I didn't see any very personal information.
| cornholio wrote:
| If somebody tried to screw you then backed out of it and you
| have proof, seems fair game to post it online, complete with
| the scammer's real name and affiliation. It might not be
| tactically prudent since that person might sue you in
| retaliation, by you are squarely within your rights to do it if
| you want, no "violation of privacy" here.
| hyperpape wrote:
| I am not referring to the case where the CEO used his work.
| That is fair game for naming and shaming.
|
| The information reflects on what are normally considered
| private details that are not limited to business
| interactions.
| RankingMember wrote:
| I love the attitude behind this
| birdyrooster wrote:
| I like the message of this website. The individual failures
| aren't the point. The failure is too much ambition and not enough
| appreciation. It seems like the OP was running from something and
| they are warning us from wasting our lives chasing mediocrity.
| erikbhn wrote:
| Are you the Opentrons guy?
|
| And yes, this is the time for my favorite quote of all time:
|
| Ever tried, ever failed, no matter!
|
| Try again, fail again... fail better.
|
| - Samuel Beckett
|
| (punctuation by me, probably)
| jimhi wrote:
| Not me but that guy is the smartest person I have ever met
| mym1990 wrote:
| Stan Wawrinka(tennis player) has this tattooed on his forearm!
| Love the quote
| ipaddr wrote:
| "CTO at Loyalsnap (02/23/2017): The CEO rejected me then used the
| code I wrote in the interview in production. When I pointed this
| out and said an estimate of the hours I worked on that if he
| wanted to use it, he told me I would have to sue him to get it.
| 20 minutes later he venmo'd me the amount and said don't sue
| him."
|
| Happens more often then you think. Get 200 approaches on
| something that team can't get right. Use one.. usually in the
| backend. Or get inspired and use parts. Ghost person who wrote
| the code.
| titzer wrote:
| Came here to post this. Your engineering team is a fail, your
| problem is a joke, and your hiring process is overfitting.
| Maybe you could post stackoverflow questions...and then wrong
| answers...and get better results from people correcting you?
| webnrrd2k wrote:
| It's like that Silicon Valley episode where Richard explains
| middle-out on the whiteboard and they just steal his code.
| overthrow wrote:
| I can't wrap my head around why companies do this. If you find
| a competent programmer whose work is good enough to use,
| wouldn't your team be better off if you hire them full-time?
| That seems more efficient than interviewing 200 people every
| time you need some code written.
| abledon wrote:
| they are hiring them as a contractor __for free__ , but just
| not telling them they are writing their production code
| prototypes for free while interviewing.
| cube00 wrote:
| If the culture is that rotten that this behavior is accepted
| (as it requires multiple people in the hiring process to be
| complicit) I doubt anyone would want to stay for very long if
| they were hired.
| sebastianconcpt wrote:
| Desperate strategy to steal developer code done by people
| that is as immoral as ignorant on how tech isn't reusable or
| modularly scalable like they imagine and how obviously bad it
| will all invariably end but they are "just giving it a try"?
| lisasays wrote:
| Logic has nothing to do with it. These companies shit on
| candidates on general principle.
| deely3 wrote:
| Pessimistic point: there a lof of competent programmers out
| there. So, why not to choose someone that you liked or
| someone who ready to work long hours, under stress, for
| minimum salary?
| [deleted]
| Endurancee wrote:
| I'm just impressed by sheer number of things you have done,
| failed or not. I really want to learn how do you manage your time
| to have done all these.
| jimhi wrote:
| I didn't have money or income for the vast majority of this.
| Parents couldn't help. What else do you have to do than think
| about where your next dollar will come from?
| [deleted]
| bowsamic wrote:
| I really don't like the false modesty
| Supermancho wrote:
| The mentioning of school slights and "failures" seems
| disturbingly petty. It concerns me that someone remembers this
| kind of stuff as some sort of personal failure. He didn't
| "fail", as much as his 18 year old self did or was just
| unlucky. What does that matter?
| spieswl wrote:
| I felt the same. The presentation is innovative and impressive
| (for sure a SUCCESS), but I do not feel like there's anything
| broadly meaningful in the content and the whole thing feels
| like a massive exercise in namedropping.
| bowsamic wrote:
| Yep. Marketing yourself as partly a failure when you have
| managed to do so many projects in the first place feels off.
| A true failure page would be an empty page, just of sadness.
| Yet not only does he have many projects, but also multiple
| big successes.
| jimhi wrote:
| Sorry I'll try harder next time
| bowsamic wrote:
| Just don't make such a post
| kevingriffiths wrote:
| Really great list, congrats on the success with ZipX. Great
| examples of Nelson Mandela's quote "I never lose. I either win or
| learn." in practice.
| czue wrote:
| Love this! What's your tech stack for all these projects? Also
| how do you aggregate all those live viewer counts?
| jimhi wrote:
| Django/Python/Jquery/Javascript/Heroku. Thanks for making
| Saaspegasus - I used for the last 6 :)
| IndigoIncognito wrote:
| This is so refreshing
| jdthedisciple wrote:
| > I had to stop when my cofounder and roommate started to believe
| he was Jesus and I was Judas. He got committed to an insane
| asylum for a bit and is better now.
|
| Full story on this one please.
| kuczmama wrote:
| This is a really great list. I see that you're constantly doing
| many things at the same time, do you ever feel like you're
| spreading yourself too thin? I wonder if you could benefit from
| focusing on one thing as opposed to working on many things at
| once.
| jimhi wrote:
| I actually just leave the other stuff in autopilot and focus on
| the next one entirely unless I see it isn't working out.
| kyoob wrote:
| Great, now I can feel inferior comparing my work to other
| people's failures in addition to their successes.
| callistus wrote:
| If you are in NYC - https://museumoffailure.com/ Opens tomorrow.
| jimhi wrote:
| I am and will totally see this thanks
| yitianjian wrote:
| Thanks for this!
| kevingriffiths wrote:
| Very cool - will check this out
| pfoof wrote:
| So much persistence, be my focusmate
| jimhi wrote:
| Sure - how?
| bigbillheck wrote:
| > Product Engineer at Experiment (06/16/2018): They weren't
| hiring but said I could dig dinosaurs if I moved to Seattle!
|
| I don't have any idea what this means, but if you're going to the
| Seattle area hoping for exposed non-marine rock from the Mesozoic
| you're going to be pretty disappointed outside the San Juans.
| mdrzn wrote:
| Damn you've done and tried a lot of stuff!
|
| What I've learned from that resume is that you can fail 100
| times, but all you need to be "set" is one ZipX that gives you
| the cash freedom to chase other dreams.
| rdlw wrote:
| https://xkcd.com/1827/
|
| Never stop trying!
| xmprt wrote:
| It's also a lot of luck and being at the right place at the
| right time. It seems like the company that became ZipX was
| acquired for 50M but before that it only generated about 200k
| in revenue. If the timing wasn't right (with the onset of
| COVID) or no one knew about his company then he wouldn't have
| that success.
|
| It really demonstrates the importance of continuing to work
| even after failures and pivoting often because you never know
| when or which idea will take off.
| MauranKilom wrote:
| That item being several orders of magnitude above all the
| others is an interesting context, for sure. Regarding the
| "being set", it would be helpful to have a date on that item in
| particular. The Forbes "30 under 30" is from 2021, but I
| haven't been able to trace the age of the company on first
| try...
| jimhi wrote:
| I co-founded Trusu in 2018. We were acquired in 2020 and that
| revenue came within the first year of that. I ended up
| providing over 100 million Facemasks around the world and
| South East Asia. Technically my company was 1 full time
| person and 1 full time contractor at the time of that revenue
| but obviously had a ton of help from the company that
| acquired us and spun out the company.
| tristor wrote:
| The metrics being up top made me pre-disposed to ignore this, but
| I kept scrolling anyway. After seeing all your failures, I
| actually think this is a great resume to show that you likely
| understand quite a lot about finding product-market fit, which is
| usually the most difficult piece of launching something new. I
| think this is a great idea to share, and I am considering perhaps
| doing something similar in the future.
| notmindthegap wrote:
| What drives you? Is it money, general problem-solving?
|
| I must be wired differently because I cannot understand how
| someone can try so many things in so many different industries
| without being driven by a mission beyond financial wealth. I have
| friends who are like this and I don't get it.
| jimhi wrote:
| If you couldn't tell, I literally couldn't get a job...
| dennis_jeeves1 wrote:
| That tells me more about our industry (and the low life,
| shitty developers who interview you) than you.
|
| BTW, thanks for posting and opening up.
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| DeathArrow wrote:
| I wonder how many times each successful person had failed before
| becoming successful.
| prewett wrote:
| There's lists that make the rounds. Einstein, Edison, Abraham
| Lincoln, and JK Rowling have notable stories. Google's top pick
| is https://www.wanderlustworker.com/48-famous-failures-who-
| will...
| jimhi wrote:
| Specifically Lincoln was a failure well into his 40s -
| https://mrsteinberg.com/creatives-who-made-it-when-they-
| were...
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