Stein: Entrepreneurs study successes like Airbnb instead of analyzing failed experiments
Aropa Stein · The Question That Tells You If a Mentee Is Worth Your Time · Jun 8, 2021 · at 19:09
Aropa Stein, CEO of Hyre, discusses mentee evaluations with Sean Weisbrot and explains why studying business failures provides more actionable lessons than admiring success stories.
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“I think people talk about success way too much within a business, like even a successful business. There are so many failures. So like, let's talk about that a little more, right? Let's learn from that. We're not only going to look at the success story of Airbnb and say, this is what I'm going to do. Let's look at like the hundreds of experiments they tried and didn't work.”
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