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One I joined failed due to:

1 - Inability to convert unpaid customers to paid. (And a focus on the wrong vanity metrics)

2 - Poor analytics which caused number 1. (The AI didn’t work)

3 - Weak governance. (Too much money too early, and a paradoxically bad founder/funder relationship)

4 - Excessivr nepotism, side projects and conflicts of interest.

This gave me a checklist to look for in companies I subsequently interviewed at.



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