#tiktoklive #livehighlights went live with Preston last night talking about starting businesses, and
9 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A speaker (Katie McManus upload) recounts a personal startup story: in late 2016 they spent three and a half years building a technology company in Princeton, New Jersey, with a handshake agreement with a business partner who ultimately sold the company for $9 million, leaving the speaker 'burned' out of their own invention. The speaker reflects on accepting responsibility for lacking documentation and frames failure as an opportunity to learn.
Questions this video answers
Late 2016.
Three and a half years.
$9 million.
Princeton, New Jersey.










