Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia

 

It all goes into this myth of the Silicon Valley founder. Think of the Steve Jobs' model: to be  a true creative genius you're going to hurt some feelings, your underlings are going to fear you, but that's good, that's what it takes. As we know now it's not what it takes! In fact, that actually hinders innovation because people don't feel comfortable, you lose talent and you end up building a very non-inclusive workspace. 

That isn't a new story - that is an important story: The hype and the excitement of founders becoming rockstars, and then failure, like big failure, quick failure. I don't think a lot of us will know this pressure: when they put millions of dollars into you ... you've got to live up to that insane evaluation that everyone believed you had. Not to take it far: this is a quiz app but I think HQ is just a micro cosmos for a much larger landscape of startups and what happened over the last decade.