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pbiggar on Sept 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why We Shut Newstilt Down

> Maybe you should figure this shit out before you take someone's hard earned money.

If we could have anticipated our mistakes, we wouldn't have made them.

dannyr on Sept 17, 2010 [–]

Paul,

I'm curious. How long have you known each other before you became cofounders?

pbiggar on Sept 17, 2010 | [–]

Not terribly well. We had met on two occasions before, and had very much clicked on both a personal and technical level. But obviously that's not enough to survive the stressful environment that is a web startup.

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