Perspectives on Failure

In each podcast, our guests share a lot of wisdom. Collected here are the thoughts on different aspects of failure, going right back to the beginning of The Knowledge Project. We’ve left their words as is, only doing minor edits for clarity. The order is simply chronological. We chose this structure because the juxtaposition of all these perspectives on various aspects of failure is what generates insights. 

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Episode #5 Chris Dixon – 

I think also a lot of it is just tenacity. And almost all companies we are involved with run to extreme  adversity…I have almost never been involved with a company that didn’t have moments of almost failure and so it’s how resilient are the entrepreneurs and…