Mayuresh retweetledi

Startups are hard.
My first one took 16 years.
→ Started @CurseForge in 2004
→ Sold to Twitch in 2016
→ Raised $ 60M+
Along the way:
• Had 5M users on a gamer chat app before Discord.
They still won.
• Burned most of our Series A before the 2007 crash.
Went from 20 investor meetings/week → 0 for a year.
Had 6 weeks of cash, 20 employees.
2 angels saved us.
I’ve never had that level of stress again.
• First product plateaued at $5M/year.
Built multiple others that stalled at $ 10M+.
Reinvented the company over and over.
• Reddit killed our forum traffic.
• Made every hiring mistake early.
Hiring execs is the hardest problem.
“Hire slow, fire fast” is real.
• In 2008, our main investor told me to step down for an “adult CEO.”
I walked out.
• Got hit with multiple lawsuits.
One arrived the day before Christmas.
I never considered quitting.
No plan B.
Didn’t even finish high school.
It had to work.
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