Gargicevich: We dragged our previous startup an extra year
Julian Gargicevich · How I Built It: $400K/Month Mobile App (Gravl) · Nov 13, 2025 · at 14:41
Julian Gargicevich, founder of fitness app Gravl, discusses knowing when to pivot and reflects on holding onto his prior startup for too long.
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“In our case was our previous startup. We probably dragged that for an extra year. We should have probably call it days like way earlier.”
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