Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope
I'm 32+, live with my parents and have failed at 4 different startups in the past 10 years, two since I left my last paying job in 2012. In 2014, I had $0 taxable income (due to being unemployed) and was rejected by the following companies: Google* (third time in 3 years) Twilio* (x2) Smartling* Samsung* Amazon+ Facebook Cloudflare AppDynamics* DigitalOcean Placemeter* E.W.Scripps* Hatch AppNexus* OpenX ThoughtWorks* Roost ... several others I can't remember ... several others I can remember, but mutually decided the fit was wrong ... MANY others to whom I submitted a resume and never heard back * = rejected after in-person interview + = withdrew, sensing impending rejection else, rejected after phone screen In addition, I took the GMAT and was rejected by the following schools: MIT Sloan Stanford Business School Columbia Business School Harvard Business School If you're t
Why it failed
I'm 32+, live with my parents and have failed at 4 different startups in the past 10 years, two since I left my last paying job in 2012. In 2014, I had $0 taxable income (due to being unemployed) and was rejected by the following companies: Google* (third time in 3 years) Tw
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- throwawaybcporn
- Ended
- 2014
- Source
- hackernews