[pipelineist]

Failure 1: Worked for a friend's company. As employee #1. I was to have all kinds of freedoms and responsibilities. Sounded really awesome.

Failure 2: Was too conflict-shy to draw firm boundaries, and likewise was he.

This friendship of 20 years is no more.

(While working for said friend) Failure 3: Offered a hair-raisingly badly thought-out fixed-price bid. Both my friends's mistake and mine. We probably sunk about 5x what we stood to make from it, and then abandoned the project, embarrassing a relative in the process.

There's plenty more of course, but these bother me.