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I wish I'd known how liberating and empowering ending a startup could be. I felt like my life was ruined when I made the decision, but now that it's all over, I feel like I have my whole life to spend on problems I actually CARE about!

AAnonymous ·October 8, 2017 ·2 answers

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AAnonymous· Oct 13, 2017

Ah, yeah, probably wrong turn #1 was starting a startup you didn't care about. That's cool that you feel so good now. Congrats.

AAnonymous· Oct 19, 2017

It's all hard work you know. And it's never gonna be easy.

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