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The Startup Graveyard
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#12one of the startups listed that "failed" is music.ly. the app bytedance acquired to launch tiktok
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#13Some of these are acquires so it's hard to argue the money was 'burned'. That said I do agree acquired companies can be viable as the product usually gets put on life-support or ruined/shutdown (like Club Penguin)
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#14Some of these are acquires so it's hard to argue the money was 'burned'. That said I do agree acquired companies can be viable as the product usually gets put on life-support or ruined/shutdown (like Club Penguin)
A lot of acquisitions are tech and talent and the details matter. A startup that gets acquired for $30M after burning $70M is definitely burned.
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#15How'd you source the information? Curious to see Cloudera listed as dead and wasn't able to find anything corroborating this online.
The author posted this on a vibe coding subreddit, so I'd be willing to wager some AI deep research with manual clean up.
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#16reminds of the old site fuckedcompany by pud which wrote about startup closures in the dot com era
At one point, there were multiple new entries throughout each day. It was entertaining/terrifying to reload the page. Wonder when we'll see something like fuckedaicompany.com pop up.
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#17Some of these are acquires so it's hard to argue the money was 'burned'. That said I do agree acquired companies can be viable as the product usually gets put on life-support or ruined/shutdown (like Club Penguin)
Even the products got eventually shut down I still don't think the money was necessarily 'burned.' Most buildings eventually fell or got destructed so were all the resources spent on construction burned? But whether a product actually helped the users is a question too nuance to ask.
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#18As they say, I'm not dead yet -- many of the companies listed as dead are acquired or very much still alive. (Domo is still publicly traded, for example.)
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#19As they say, I'm not dead yet -- many of the companies listed as dead are acquired or very much still alive. (Domo is still publicly traded, for example.)
Poshmark also is not dead.
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#20Similar site: https://www.failory.com/cemetery