There’s always more sides to each story and whilst it’s no real surprise to see some — perfectly understandable — disgruntled ex-staff, I find a number of the comments here to be very valuable. In this post Sam nicely thanks the team in the spirit of celebrating failures, which is great, but I decided not to clap because a true retrospective should also acknowledge key mistakes that were made … and here I’m referring to real mistakes, not blaming an unnamed potential investor at the very end of a long runway. Was problem-solution fit and solution-market fit truly validated or was the team blinded by innovators bias? Was there a problem with prioritization and which high risk assumptions were not tested? Did the product have a real unfair advantage that cannot easily be copied or bought? What was the traction? Etc etc