one time a reporter did an 'expose' on a founder I backed whose last company failed...here's how I responded: Wow, you discovered that [last…

one time a reporter did an "expose" on a founder I backed whose last company failed...here's how I responded: Wow, you discovered that [last company], despite years of trying, eventually didn’t work. Should [CEO] be sent to Roman Debtors’ prison? Maybe hanged, drawn, and quartered? When a company doesn’t work, people lose their jobs and investors and creditors lose. It’s part of business. So is doing something new. This is like doing an expose on the chef whose last restaurant failed and dared to start a new one.

Source: Emad Mostaque (X) | 2026-05-14