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my retrospective on Personae — lsankar.eth

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A few weeks ago, we made the challenging decision to pivot our energy away from Personae, the company I've been working on for the past couple of years. We pioneered new ground, we failed to build retentive products, and ultimately we decided to return investor money and re-enter the startup idea maze from scratch. Looking back, it's been a classic startup journey of ups and downs. I'd like to take some time here to ramble out some closing thoughts. This may be the first in a multi-part series but it may also not. Candidly, I'm mostly doing this for myself. Being publicly retrospective+vulnerable is therapeutic. But I hope it also serves other founders struggling to bring cutting edge tech to market. It's a unique and lonely journey and the rough edges one picks up by grinding through it might have generalizable learnings. Fwiw I'm not leaving crypto or startups and I only feel better armed and more excited going in for round 2! Personae was founded to innovate on what it means to be p

A few weeks ago , we made the challenging decision to pivot our energy away from Personae, the company I've been working on for the past couple of years. We pioneered new ground, we failed to build retentive products, and ultimately we decided to return investor money and re-enter the startup idea maze from scratch. Looking back, it's been a classic startup journey of ups and downs. I'd like to take some time here to ramble out some closing thoughts. This may be the first in a multi-part series but it may also not. Candidly, I'm mostly doing this for myself. Being publicly retrospective+vulner

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