Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Started a stupid company. Failed.

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

151–160 of 436 posts

Re: Started a stupid company. Failed.

#151

Post by richardlblair »

typicalrunt wrote: post #102
singular wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have for a while thought of you as (total honesty here) a bullying cock (though talented at what you do), but this comment which is sincere, genuine and offered to someone for whom this could be greatly helpful has made me seriously reconsider. Kudos.

Getting a bit OT here but I have to wade in... To people that know him personally, like myself, Zed is a great guy. My guess at the problem is that his Internet persona took on its own life outside of his control, and it grew to such a bad situation that it was better to not try to feed the trolls and simply put some distance from it. In other words, let the haters hate and be ignored, stand up for yourself when appr…

TBH, when I first started following Zed on twitter I thought he was an ass, but recently something changed. Now he just seems like a normal dude who kills it.

Re: Started a stupid company. Failed.

#153

Post by wf »

I'm late to the party. But I'm also willing to help you. If you're technical and need a recommendation for a job in the Midwest shoot me an email and maybe in my limited way I can help you. Good luck!

Re: Started a stupid company. Failed.

#154

Post by mylons »

zedshaw wrote: post #13

Hey, other comments are going to give you a few lines telling you to not quit, that you should hang in there, and that it'll be alright. That may be true, but to me it sounds like you're possibly not doing well enough to make any of that possible, and you probably need to find work fast. Here's what I want to do: 1. I have a little list of companies looking for employees that I'll send you. Not much just companies th…

good guy zed shaw. kudos to you sir, and if you ever want to grab a beer/bourbon around SF message me! good deeds need to go rewarded

Re: Started a stupid company. Failed.

#155

Post by SteliE »

Really sorry to hear the situation you're in. I've shared my story of failure and entrepreneurial depression here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrUw4S76jFQ

A few people have told me that it helped them in tough times.

I have a small child and another on the way so I can only guess how you feel right now. Entrepreneurship is hard. Ping me at steli@close.io if you ever need someone to listen.

Re: Started a stupid company. Failed.

#157

Post by joseph_cooney »

hbags wrote: post #115
kibibu wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It strikes me that Zed has been on the receiving end of way more bullying than he has given out (including being called a cock by you in this very post)

Speaking of cocks, the technical leadership at two well-funded startups systematically harassed Zed by adding him to github repos that contained nothing but ASCII cocks. I know this because they bragged about it openly, thinking it hilarious. Zed takes a lot of abuse for little reason. I debated naming the companies here, but they appear to be failing anyway. Probably because they hired the sort of people who find ha…

Time to name and shame.

Re: Started a stupid company. Failed.

#160

Post by alex_c »

Michael_Murray wrote: post #101

I'm on my 5th company. The first 3 failed so miserably that there's not even a crater from where they imploded. The fourth had one of the founders usurp control and steal >$1M from the rest of the team and we were left exactly where you are - tapping 401Ks, taking our savings to $0 (and in some cases The 5th hit $10M in revenue in 3 years (completely bootstrapped). Everyone else has great advice here - I just wanted…

>The first 3 failed so miserably that there's not even a crater from where they imploded.

Beautiful way to put it.

Post reply on HN