[bhouston]

This seems to miss diagnose the issue as suicide but really the startup wasn’t having success. If the company isn’t making money, then yes you run out of runway, you get founder conflicts etc. Saying this is suicide is missing the point.

If you are failing giving up is sometimes the right option. Many startups are based on assumptions/predictions that turn out to be wrong. And it is hard to pivot if you’ve spent the money and committed or not worth it if your cap table is wrecked.

BTW this mostly read like it was mostly written by AI. The various bolded text, missing the point, and emdashes.

[makle]

Totally agree that sometimes shutting down is the right call, not every startup should survive, and plenty of ideas simply don’t work once they hit reality. The point I was trying to make isn’t that failure = suicide, but that many teams collapse before they’ve fully tested whether the idea works.

And fair feedback on the writing style. Appreciate you calling it out. I am not a native speaker, so I definitely used AI to help me formulate my ideas & opinions.

[leoc]

If I were a startup, I would simply achieve product/market fit instead of failing.

(yes, /s)

[mads_quist]

Haha, yes. I never understood why startups don't achieve PMF