A few days ago I wrote a post about PR and soaring expectations that can lead to failure for many highly touted start ups. Today I came across a blog post called “Five Life-Changing Mistakes and How I Moved On” written by Julie Mainwright — the former CEO of one of the failed companies I referenced: Pets.com [thanks Brad Feld.]
Julie (currently CEO of SmartNow) identifies her 2 failures as the massively public closure of Pets.com and her divorce, both of which occurred in the same week. It sounds like she was in a complete whirlwind of pain. Julie goes on to identify her 5 biggest mistakes as well as how she has grown/learned/moved-on from each of those mistakes.
It was beautiful and touching to read someone discuss their failure/their recovery from failure in such reflective words. I think it speaks volumes about her strength of character and resilience under such conditions. It’s inspiring to hear someone go through all that and come out seemingly on top. Definitely worth a quick read for everyone.
