Startups are supposed to fail fast. But the reality is, they actually usually end up failing really slowly. So I recently went through a list of 488 startups that I wrote up between 2012 and 2014. I thought it would be fun to read the list of the names of Made startups, you might recognize some of them. I wrote a lot of stories. [ COUGH ] 10gen, 10shi, 12Society, 20x200, 8tracks, 99designs, A Beautiful Mess, about. me, Aha Radio, AHAlife, Airbnb, AirCover, Airtime, Albumatic. Bark box. Bark bubbly. Battle bears. Bubble bark. Bit box. Bizotto. Blog frog. Blue apron. Blurtopia. Blush. Bond. Bondzie. Ain't nobody got time for that. Facebook will no longer use humans. Boundless learning. Bow and drape. Box. Bright fights. Budding media. Bunch ball. Buy cut \ g. Buyless me. [ UNKNOWN ] carnival labs, carrot mob, cash island, [ UNKNOWN ], cater2. me, catercow, [ UNKNOWN ]. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Experial, exposure, [ INAUDIBLE ] fan bridge, fancy hands, fan Farmer's Web, Fiftyone, FilePicker. io, FindTheBest, Flat World Knowledge, Pure Truth, Snap Snap Go, Snapchat, Socratic Labs, Sold, Soluto, Solve Media, Songsicle, Songza. [ MUSIC ] Zillow, Zocdoc, Zypsee. [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] Yes. [ LAUGH ]

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