Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)

Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)(sahillavingia.com)

30 points by pbardea 282 days ago | 5 comments

botswana99 279 days ago |

You should be proud…you’ve learn the difference between the pursuit of value vs. the pursuit of valuation. Congrats.

sriram_malhar 279 days ago | |

well put.

ikidd 279 days ago |

And then he went to work for DOGE.

moreinfo17736 279 days ago | |

And here's the story about why.

Why I joined DOGE: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/1254121714/doge-staffer-sahil...

Seems to be a very forthright fellow.

relaxing 279 days ago | | |

> LAVINGIA: That's another thing I learned. It's not like-- there's no easy wins. The government is not corrupt. The government is really not wasteful. The government commits to doing a lot of things for its citizens, but generally, it executes on them decently well, full of amazing, hard-working, educated people. Is it too nice to those people? Maybe. Is it too nice to citizens? Maybe.

“The government is too nice to its citizens” is not a take I was expecting today. That’s… bizarre.