[sjtindell]

As a relative outsider, I would hope being labeled as one of the biggest failures would be a mark of experience among a set that claims or claimed to uphold the “fail fast” mentality and treats failure like the learning experience it is.

[mathattack]

In Walk Street if you have a $50 million blow-up your career is shot. If you have a $500 million blowup you get a second shot because you must have been somebody to be trusted with that much money.

[ZephyrBlu]

"fail fast" refers to experiments, not the whole damn company.

[majormajor]

A new company is almost by definition an experiment.

[derekmh]

Especially when peoples’ lives depend on it.