[gopalv]

> I struggled with making daily company decisions. Lots of doctor visits and hospital stays later, I was diagnosed with OCD and depression while trying to operate this company and bring my dreams to reality. This was not a recipe for success.

That seems an unnecessary take-down of the founder in the middle.

The "recipe for success" isn't a thing in you - the "recipe for success" is trying.

And that she did, as much as she could. If this was a success story everything about being a barista would be said in the same admiring tones as the famous Vegas Fedex story.

"You can't win the lottery without buying a ticket" is how I view silicon valley money, because you can win, but you have to put yours in to win it.

[i386]

Not sure why this is downvoted. Success is trying. You don’t get anywhere with any substance without putting the hard yards in. And sometimes, it doesn’t work. That’s okay.

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There is no magic recipe for success and frequently people find success via luck, hacks, etc.

In my experience, telling passionate potential founders if they never try they’ll never succeed leads to dark patterns in more than a few situations; for example, currently aware of a founder that left a good job to throw money and time at a startup even he clearly explained himself is doomed to fail. Personally seen people treat startups like a gambling addictions, pipe dreams that are clearly not based on any objective observable reality, etc.

In fact, comment you replied to referred to FedEx founder story of them gambling in Vegas to save the company with the last of the company’s funds. This is not the type of healthy, level headed, culture the startup community needs.