September 2010
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Pivots are never easy or you're doing them wrong.
Music Pets, a product that our team poured a lot of heart and soul into, closes today. In its heyday it spent 5 weeks as one of the fastest growing games on Facebook, and anecdotally had a huge cohort of users that don’t typically play Facebook games. The shutdown was solely our decision, as I’ve spoken about, and I believe it was the right decision based on both the cold hard numbers...
I’ve been remiss to at least update things here on the selling of Conduit Labs to Zynga. In one of those classic moments where you plan to “get to it tomorrow so you can really do it right” — suddenly it’s a month later.
The delay is mostly because I always do post-mortems on this kind of thing, and it has been taking me a little while to digest the goods and the...
“The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed...”
– Max Levchin, PayPal cofounder: FailCon: Failing Forward To Success : NPR
(ironic that I am reblogging from Bijan’s repost of my FB status update)