[neilv]

> Today, I am sharing the learning lessons so that you do not make the mistakes I made.

> 1. Do not trust people blindly, especially your team.

> This was the number mistake my cofounder Oscar, and I made. We trusted our team blindly.

Your number-one mistake was trusting your team?

That sounds like it could be finger-pointing downwards by a leader, so you might want to expound, or reconsider.

For example, even if the entire startup team turned out to be dishonest and incompetent, weren't those clowns were hired and led by the founders? If so, the buck might stop with the founders, so maybe there's a better way to characterize and learn from the failure.

[uditgoenka]

Definitely its my fault, I take the blame as a Founder. Hence, I am sharing my learning and not pointing fingers at someone else. There is a difference.

[synu]

Your big mistake as a leader was trusting the people you were leading?

[uditgoenka]

The word here here is "BLIND" trust.