Product Failures: It's not you, it's your team
Today we discuss another type of failure that is all too common, especially in young companies - team failure. We talk with Latif Nanji, the founder and CEO of Roadmonk, about his first startup Pokers...
9 Huhti 202034min
Product Failures: Acquisitions
The Exit. Liquidity. Acquihire. Merger. No matter the name, it’s a milestone in any entrepreneurs life. Today we take a look at the real stories behind acquisitions, when the outcome isn’t quite what ...
2 Huhti 202024min
Product Failures: Path
Path was created in 2010 by former Facebook employee Dave Morin as a sort of anti-Facebook. It stood out with one good idea: limits for friends. You couldn’t add more than 50 people to your network wh...
26 Maalis 202031min
Product Failures: Blockbuster
In 2000, Reed Hastings, the founder of a fledgling company called Netflix, flew to Dallas to propose a partnership to Blockbuster CEO John Antioco and his team. The idea was that Netflix would run Blo...
19 Maalis 202031min
Product Failures: Audible
From creating unsafe driving conditions to aggravating spouses across the globe, todays failure is a lesson in what happens when your team lacks diversity, especially of lived experiences that help bu...
12 Maalis 202017min
Product Failures: American Airlines
On September 11, 2001 two American Airlines airplanes were hijacked. One was flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center and the other crashed into a field on it's way to the White House kill...
5 Maalis 202020min
Product Failures: The Psychology of Failure with Jerry Colonna
We've been talking a lot about well known product failures, but at this point in the series, we're going to take a little pause. Today, we remember that there are very real people behind these failure...
27 Helmi 202026min
Product Failures: Color
Raising $41 million dollars before launch, Color should have been an instant hit, but instead met a swift demise. When it launched, the application had around 1 million downloads. By September 2011, t...
20 Helmi 202022min
