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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.

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Late 2016.

Three and a half years.

$9 million.

Princeton, New Jersey.

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