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“For every Luciano and Lansky, there are thousands of Jimmy Darmodys who are footnotes in history – these guys who made a run at it, didn’t make it and died trying.”
I love TV shows (like Buffy, Angel, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Spartacus) that have the confidence to kill off characters because that’s what the story deserves.
I also enjoy Boardwalk Empire because it focuses on a character you know was going to fail — unless it takes even more copious liberties with history.
Society idolizes winners, which is why they get the privilege of writing history. But focusing too much on the winners blind us to insights that can be had from the Jimmy Darmodys of the world.
Two days ago, Terence shared with me an article about survivorship bias on You Are Not So Smart.
It discusses how when trying to learn what works, it is necessary and paramount to learn from those who failed.
Which brings me to the funding news and awesome startups that SGE, TechInAsia and e27 have been covering: What has since happened to all the startups that we’ve been highlighting?
SXSW
Interestingly enough, an issue of SXSWorld (the SXSW 2013 recap issue) came in the mail yesterday.
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