I love to teach. I post about #dataengineering and #mentalhealth daily. 

Many years of data engineering experience doing growth analytics at Facebook, security infrastructure at Netflix, and pricing and availability infrastructure at Airbnb. 

You can find me by looking up EcZachly on all social networks 

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To the people who lost their jobs at Block, I want to also say, I’m really sorry. This is a very tough spot to be in! 

The DataExpert.io team is offering a free one year subscription to our cloud learning platform to anyone affected by these layoffs to help them upskill in AI and data. 

Send an email to support@dataexpert.io with your name and a brief note to get onboarded

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Co-Founder & CTO @ Staq | Data Scientist

I’m a physicist turned data scientist, now a founder building The Runway Ventures — a weekly newsletter to help people learn from startup failures to become the top 1% founders.

I spent the first 3 years of my career helping companies solve business problems as a data scientist. Meantime, I was also a corporate trainer, speaker, and writer in data science. Then, I spent the next 3 years building startups. 1 failed, 1 acquired.

🧗🏻 This is how I got here:

• Got my degree in Physics from Nanyang Technological University.

• Started as a data scientist at SME (Titansoft), then MNC (Micron) before joining a startup (Hackwagon).

• Quit my job during COVID (wild timing), joined an incubator, found a co-founder, and built my 1st startup (Staq). Spent 1.5 years building Staq but we failed. Despite our mistakes, we learned a lot.

• Was very lost after my 1st startup’s failure. Spent the next 2 months doing self-reflection and exploring my curiosity.

• Started my 2nd startup building Leadgram at an influencer marketing agency (X10 Media). 8 months later, we got acquired by The Smart Local (TSL) Media Group.

***

After 3 years of building startups, I'm convinced that mistakes are the best teachers to become a better founder. For any startup, there are many ways to succeed, but only a few ways to die.

That’s why I started The Runway Ventures. 

Every Sunday, I analyse and share 1 failed startup story, 2 mistakes made, and 3 lessons learned with actionable tips to help you learn from startup failures.

Real life case studies, with key takeaways you can apply in your business.

No theories or BS.

99% of startups failed because founders made mistakes.

You’ll learn why and how startups failed to become the top 1% founder.

🤝🏻 Join us here (it’s free!): www.therunway.ventures

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This is the lawyer letter I received.

"Remove the article. Apologise. Or we'll commence legal proceedings."

I've written 100+ failed startup stories.

Last year alone:
- 5 legal threats
- 2 cease-and-desist letters
- 1 founder tried to buy my silence

Everyone sees this: "21,000+ newsletter subscribers 📈"

Nobody sees this: Lawyer letters demanding I take down stories.

The truth? Most writers just quit.

Legal fees can kill you. Founders have lawyers on speed dial. And in Asia, truth doesn't always protect you.

But someone needs to tell these stories.
Someone needs to share the lessons.
Someone needs to help founders avoid these mistakes.

Might as well be me.

P.S. Ever been threatened for telling the truth?

Admond Lee

Helping you become the top 1% founder by learning from startup failures | 2x founder | 1 exit | Founder @ The Runway Ventures 🚀

$18M raised. 20 showrooms. 430 employees.

Then employees were told: "We're waiting for investor funds."

🇮🇩 Fabelio wanted to become Indonesia's IKEA.

Founded in 2015, they built a DTC furniture brand with local manufacturing, online convenience, and offline showrooms.

At its peak:
- $18M in funding from 500 Startups, Venturra Capital, AppWorks
- 20 experience centres across Indonesia
- 430 employees
- 750+ sub-district delivery coverage
- Unit economics positive since late 2017

They were taking on IKEA and winning.

Then salary payments stopped. Vendors waited months. Customers who paid for sofas and wardrobes were told to be patient.

By October 2022, the Commercial Court declared bankruptcy.

Everything collapsed when:
- they scaled too fast in a capital-heavy business (every showroom = monthly rent, every sofa in warehouse = cash locked up)
- operations depended on incoming investor funds to pay salaries

The business didn't fail because demand disappeared. It failed because liquidity timing broke.

Tonight at 8pm, I'm publishing the full story — how Indonesia's "local IKEA" went from unit economics positive to bankruptcy in under 2 years.

Subscribe to read it → https://lnkd.in/gdDrhgtq

P.S. Furniture retail is not software. Every sofa sitting in a warehouse is cash you can't spend.

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I closed down my first startup after 1.5 years.

April 2023. I got the call. The acquisition deal fell through.

That was it. Staq was dead.

I met my co-founder at Entrepreneurs First. We built Staq — a universal API for digital lenders to access SME financial data. On paper, we had big clients in pilots. In reality, none of them converted into paid contracts.

By December 2022, we were running out of cash. Our last resort? An acquire-hire deal with one of our clients. We spent months in limbo — refreshing emails, pretending everything was fine, not knowing if we'd have jobs, a company, or a future.

Then the call came. Deal's off.

Looking back, I made 2 big mistakes:

1. No founder-market fit.
We had no domain expertise in fintech. No network. We spent months learning the industry while burning runway. By the time we understood the problem, we were dying. 2 months of runway left.

2. Fell in love with the solution.
We saw Codat (a UK player) and thought we could copy their model in SEA. We never deeply understood the problem. We just assumed their solution would work here. It didn't. SMEs weren't ready to share financial data. Timing was off. Market wasn't there.

What I'd tell myself back then:

→ A problem is only worth solving if you're the right team to solve it
→ Fall in love with the problem, not the solution
→ Validate before you build anything

This was the darkest period of my life. But it's also why I started writing failed startup stories.

Learning from my own mistakes was expensive. Learning from others is free.

Every Sunday, I break down 1 failed startup, 2 mistakes, and 3 lessons learned.

Join 21,000+ founders here → https://lnkd.in/gdRTFzy6

P.S. What's the hardest lesson your startup taught you?

HK$30 million of personal savings.

Still couldn't save a 33-year-old business.

🇭🇰 Ocean Empire Food Shop was Hong Kong's most iconic congee chain — founded in 1992 by two partners determined to modernise congee.

Congee was beloved. But the experience? Cramped dai pai dong stalls, inconsistent hygiene, unreliable quality.

They wanted to fix that.

At its peak:
- 30+ outlets across Hong Kong and Macau
- 16,000 bowls sold per day
- ISO 22000 and HACCP certified
- Founder awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star (SBS)

From street food to city-honoured institution.

Then 2019 hit (protests). Then COVID.

The founders didn't walk away. They injected HK$30M+ of personal funds. Sold property. Took loans. Did everything to keep the business alive.

It wasn't enough.

By 2025:
- Branches shrank from 30+ to 7
- Rent arrears piled up
- Employees chased unpaid wages
- Founder declared bankrupt

33 years of building. Gone.

Tonight at 8pm, I'm publishing the full story — why pouring HK$30M of personal money couldn't save a business that was already structurally broken.

Subscribe to read it → https://lnkd.in/gdDrhgtq

$9M raised. 34,000 bikes. 16 cities.

Then 90% of the fleet got stolen or destroyed.

🇭🇰 Gobee.bike was Hong Kong's first dockless bike-sharing startup.

Founded by Raphaël Cohen and Claude Ducharme in 2017, they wanted to solve the "last mile" problem — that annoying gap between train stations and your final destination.

At its peak:
- $9M Series A from Grishin Robotics and Alibaba HK Fund
- 300,000 app downloads
- 34,000 bikes across 16 cities
- First Asian bike-share company to launch in Paris

They beat Ofo and Mobike to Europe.

Bikes got thrown into rivers. Locks got smashed. Entire fleets vanished in Brussels, Lille, and Reims within weeks.

But vandalism wasn't the real killer.

The unit economics never worked.

Revenue was HK$5 per 30 minutes. After bike costs, operations, and maintenance — every bike was losing money. Even before theft.

Scaling the fleet just scaled the losses.

By July 2018, Gobee shut down globally.

Tonight at 8pm, I'm publishing the full story — how Hong Kong's first bike-sharing startup went from beating Chinese giants to bankruptcy in 15 months.

Subscribe to read it → https://lnkd.in/gdDrhgtq

P.S. Great product. Strong investors. None of it matters if your model depends on strangers playing nice.

✌🏻

$20M to buy Miss Universe.

3 years later — debt default, bankruptcy, criminal investigations, and delisted from the stock exchange.

🇹🇭 JKN Global Group was a Thai media company that built an empire importing foreign TV content into Thailand.

The founder, Anne Jakrajutatip, started by helping her family's struggling video-rental business. She noticed something — foreign shows Thai audiences had never seen.

One of her first hits? BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. Sold around a million copies in Thailand.

At its peak:
- IPO on Thailand's stock exchange
- Indian dramas filling hundreds of broadcast hours
- THB 1.63B in programme-rights revenue

Then they bought Miss Universe for $20M in October 2022.

But debt was piling up.

When THB 609M in bonds matured in September 2023, JKN couldn't pay. They asked bondholders to restructure. Filed for rehabilitation. Then came the SEC investigations.

By December 2025, 12 people faced criminal complaints. Asset freezes. Travel bans. Allegations of fictitious transactions and insider trading.

By January 2026, JKN's TV station went dark.

Tonight at 8pm, I'm publishing the full story — how JKN went from buying Miss Universe to complete collapse, and the 2 mistakes that killed them.

Subscribe to get it first → https://lnkd.in/gdDrhgtq

P.S. Owning a global brand means nothing if your capital structure can't support it.

#startup

She bought Miss Universe for $20M.

3 years later — 12 people are under criminal investigation.

🇹🇭 In October 2022, Anne Jakrajutatip's JKN Global Group shocked the world by acquiring Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA from IMG.

But behind the scenes, debt was piling up.

JKN funded its expansion — TV station, commerce arm, Miss Universe — with short-term bonds that had fixed maturity dates.

When THB 609M in bonds came due in September 2023, cash wasn't there.

What followed:
- debt default
- bankruptcy filing
- SEC sanctions for misleading disclosure
- criminal complaints against 12 people
- delisting from the stock exchange
- JKN18 ceased broadcasting

The company didn't collapse because the Miss Universe deal was bad.

It collapsed because they financed long-term bets with short-term debt — and the cash never arrived fast enough.

I just published the full story — how JKN went from buying Miss Universe to bankruptcy court, and the 2 mistakes that killed them.

Read it here → https://lnkd.in/gDdVpiKF

P.S. Miss Universe couldn't save them. Cash flow could have.

#startup

After writing 100+ failed startup stories, one pattern keeps showing up.

They ran out of cash.

Not because they lacked effort. The model didn't work.

- acquisition didn't pay for acquisition
- margins were thin
- no upsell
- no continuity
- revenue reset every month

Runway disappeared.

Most founders think the fix is more funding. Or more traffic.

It's not.

It's fixing how money flows through your business.

That's why I chose this book for my referral program — $100M Money Models by Alex Hormozi.

The book shows you how to:
- make customers pay for acquisition
- add upsells that increase revenue immediately
- build continuity so revenue doesn't reset to zero

Already subscribed to The Runway Ventures?

Refer 10 founders → I'll personally buy and ship you a physical copy.

If you can't find your referral link, DM me.

I only have 50 copies. Once they're gone, that's it.

TLDR:
1. Refer 10 founders
2. Get one of the 50 copies
3. Strengthen your cash engine

P.S. Haven't subscribed to TRV yet? Join 21k+ founders here: https://lnkd.in/gdDrhgtq

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One podcast episode. Page 1 of Google within days.

Last year, I started doing founder podcasts as an experiment. No strategy. No playbook.

My bet was simple: founders want to learn from other founders — the ups, the downs, the comebacks, the mistakes.

Karl Chan was one of our first guests.

His episode went viral. Traffic was so high that Sourcy's story on our website ranked on page 1 of Google within days.

So I tried it again with other founders. Same playbook. Worked again.

After a year of iterations, here's what I've learned:

If you're a founder trying to attract customers or investors — your founder story is what matters most.

Not your pitch deck. Not your product features. Your story.

A great founder podcast does more than content:
→ Builds trust with your audience
→ Amplifies your reach to the right people

And when you have trust + reach? Customers become a byproduct.

Only 2 slots left for Q2 founder podcasts.

If you have an interesting founder journey to share, DM me.

P.S. Your story is your unfair advantage. Most founders underestimate it — and you'd be tapping into TRV's 80,000+ network of founders, operators, and investors.

Building Sourcy.ai to help consumer brands launch products faster and better | We’re hiring!

Sourcy

US$6B+ moved. 45M users served. And the mistakes that almost killed their companies?

They rarely talk about those.

Until now.

🇸🇬 Startup Fxckups is back.

This time, I'm bringing 2 founders who've built some of Southeast Asia's biggest companies:

• Kelvin Teo, CPA ☀️ — Co-Founder & Group CEO of Funding Societies | Modalku Group. S$6.6B+ disbursed to 100,000+ SMEs across 5 countries.

• Justin Lee — Co-Founder & CPO of ShopBack. 45M+ users. US$1B+ in cashback paid out.

Combined, they've raised hundreds of millions.

Built teams of thousands.

Survived multiple near-death moments.

On 8 April, they're sharing the real stuff — the bad hires, failed pivots, and decisions they usually keep to themselves.

No polished keynotes. No PR-approved scripts.

What you'll get:
- Panel sharing (unfiltered founder stories)
- Q&A with both founders
- Open mic to share your own fxckups
-  Dinner, drinks, and networking with 60 curated tech founders

Huge thanks to Airwallex and Endeavor Indonesia for making this happen. This event is curated. We review every application.

If you're building a tech startup, you'll fit right in.

Only 60 spots. Register here → https://luma.com/wwheggis

P.S. The stories they're sharing have never been told publicly. Until now.

S$6.6B disbursed. 45M users. 2 founders who've seen it all.

They're sharing the mistakes that almost killed their companies.

🇸🇬 Startup Fxckups is back — this time with Kelvin Teo, CPA ☀️ (Funding Societies | Modalku Group) and Justin Lee (ShopBack).

Kelvin built Southeast Asia's largest SME digital financing platform. S$6.6B+ disbursed to 100,000+ SMEs across 5 countries.

Justin scaled ShopBack to 45M+ users and paid out US$1B+ in cashback.

They've seen the highs. But more importantly — they've survived the lows.

This isn't a polished success story panel.

It's founders sharing the bad decisions, painful pivots, and hard lessons they learned the expensive way.

📅 8 April, 6:30pm – 9pm
📍 Airwallex Office

What to expect:
- Panel sharing (the real stuff)
- Q&A with both founders
- Open mic (share your own fxckups)
- Dinner, drinks, and networking

Huge thanks to Airwallex and Endeavor Indonesia for making this happen.

If you're building a high-growth company, you'll feel right at home.

Only 50 spots. Register here → https://luma.com/wwheggis

P.S. These two have built $2B+ in combined value. The lessons they'll share? Priceless.

Most people know what I do.

But not many people know my dream.

This is my dream.

Thanks for having me Nison Chan 🔥🔥🔥💪🏻

Community and Partnerships Lead at e27, SEA’s premier ecosystem for startups, investors and corporates.

2 weeks ago, I started a new video reel series called “What is your dream?”
Not the usual founder conversations about revenue, funding, or growth hacks. We hear enough of that all the time. What I’m more curious about is the person behind the startup. The reason they started and what kept them going when things get difficult. Because when you strip away the pitch decks and the metrics, every founder is really just someone chasing something they deeply believe in.

If you're in the SEA startup ecosystem here on LinkedIn, most of you would already know of Admond Lee from The Runway Ventures. But do we actually know the real him?

I am inspired by how he grew his newsletter from 0 to 21,000 subscribers in such a short time. That’s impressive, of course. But what stuck with me more was how openly he talked about the things that didn’t work.

And honestly, I think those parts are the most interesting. Most people only want to talk about the wins. The clean stories. The growth numbers. But the real journey is usually messy. A lot of trial, mistakes, figuring things out as you go. 

What is your dream?
Enjoy this video feature :)

#startup #startupecosystem

First physical podcast - quite fun actually haha. Thanks for having me Michael Smith Jr.!

P.S. Now I know why you love Poddster Singapore so much Keith Yap 🫡💪🏻

Oracle Cloud Evangelist :: The Generalists Show :: Part-time 🦄 herder

Awesome to meet Admond Lee and get a chance to have him on the show. It’s gonna be an awesome episode !

They launched a HK$10 all-you-can-eat congee buffet.

It went viral. Crowds lined up. The internet loved it.

6 months later, the company shut down.

🇭🇰 Ocean Empire Food Shop was a 33-year-old Hong Kong institution. At its peak:
- 30+ outlets across Hong Kong and Macau
- 16,000 bowls of congee sold daily
- Founder awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star

This wasn't a VC-backed startup burning runway. It was a 33-year F&B empire built on standardisation, ISO certifications, and decades of trust.

Then COVID hit. Foot traffic vanished. Rents didn't.

The founders poured HK$30 million of personal funds to keep it alive. Sold property. Took loans. Did everything they could.

Still wasn't enough.

The HK$10 buffet was a last-ditch survival move. It drew crowds — but crowds don't pay rent arrears. Crowds don't cover HK$270,000/month leases.

By May 2025, the shutters came down. Employees chased unpaid wages. By January 2026, the founder was declared bankrupt — by a finance company he'd borrowed from to save the business.

33 years of building. Gone.

I broke down the 2 mistakes that turned a 33-year empire into a bankruptcy filing.

Read it here → https://lnkd.in/g-PdNq_a

P.S. In F&B, reputation is built slowly. But liquidity runs out fast.

$1.3B revenue. 50,000 employees. NATO supplier.

CEO arrested on corruption allegations. 10,000+ workers laid off.

🇮🇩 Sritex was Southeast Asia's largest textile empire.

It started as a tiny market stall in Solo, 1966. H.M. Lukminto was just buying and selling cloth.

By the 2010s, Sritex had become a vertically integrated powerhouse — spinning, weaving, dyeing, and garment production all under one roof.

At its peak:
- $1.3B annual revenue
- 50,000+ employees
- Exported to 55 countries
- Supplied military uniforms to 35 countries (including NATO)

Then they issued $500M in USD bonds to scale even faster.

COVID hit. Global demand collapsed. The debt crushed them.

Restructuring failed. Courts stepped in. Operations ceased in March 2025.

Then came the corruption charges.

The former CEO was arrested in May 2025 over allegations tied to IDR 1.35 trillion in loans.

From market stall to empire to collapse — in one generation.

I broke down the full story, the 2 fatal mistakes, and what founders can learn from this.

Read it here → https://lnkd.in/g5NnMXNj

P.S. 59 years to build. 4 years to collapse.

RM47M raised. $104M valuation. 500+ brands.

Then FashionValet collapsed with RM127M in accumulated losses.

🇲🇾 Founded by Vivy Yusof and her husband Fadza Anuar in 2010, FashionValet was a Malaysian e-commerce platform that promoted local fashion through its digital marketplace.

Thanks to Vivy's influencer presence (1.8M+ followers on IG), FashionValet expanded to 500+ fashion brands and launched their own in-house brands like dUCk and LILIT.

At its peak, FashionValet raised RM47M from Khazanah and PNB in 2018. Physical stores in Malaysia and Singapore. The poster child for Malaysian startups.

However, the capital became a curse in disguise.

Everything collapsed when:
- their in-house brands cannibalised other brands on the marketplace
- the marketplace model wasn't sustainable (thin margins)
- founders expanded aggressively (too many retail stores)
- COVID-19 severely impacted operations
- didn't plan for a rainy day

By 2023, accumulated losses hit RM127M. Khazanah and PNB exited with RM43.9M in losses.

The founders said it themselves: "We expanded too aggressively, and did not sufficiently plan for a rainy day."

⚠️ 2 mistakes that killed them:

1. Prioritised growth over profit — no financial visibility, no spend controls, just bleeding cash

2. Took loans to survive, not grow — by the time they needed runway, it was too late

Every dollar raised should extend your runway. Theirs shortened it.

FashionValet had no real-time visibility into their cash burn. No systems to make their runway work harder.

I've been using Airwallex — and it solves exactly that:

→ Yield on idle cash (runway works harder)
→ 1% unlimited cashback on cards
→ Near-zero FX fees
→ Real-time spend visibility

They just launched "Airwallex for Startups" — zero collection fees, zero FX on first S$20k, CFO mentorship, plus perks from OpenAI, Notion, HubSpot.

Limited spots for the startup program.

Apply here → https://lnkd.in/gvwbNc5Y

P.S. 38% of startups fail because they run out of cash. Know your numbers before it's too late.

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People dumped their bikes into rivers for fun.

That's not even why they failed.

🇭🇰 Gobee.bike was Hong Kong's first dockless bike-sharing startup — founded by Raphaël Cohen in 2017 to solve the "last-mile" problem between train stations and your home.

$9M raised. First Asian bike-share to hit Paris. 34,000 bikes across 16 cities. 300,000 app downloads.

They beat Ofo and Mobike to Europe. They were winning.

Then the bikes started disappearing.

Stolen. Vandalised. Thrown into rivers. 80–90% of their European fleet was destroyed within months.

But vandalism wasn't the real killer.

The unit economics never worked. Scaling the fleet only scaled the losses.

By July 2018 — just 15 months after launch — they shut down globally. Users scrambled to claim back their HK$399 deposits.

I broke down the 2 mistakes that killed Hong Kong's bike-sharing pioneer.

Read it here → https://lnkd.in/gFevz7jN

P.S. Never bet your business on strangers behaving nicely.

After writing 100+ failed startup stories, the same 5 mistakes keep showing up.

Most startups don't die because the market was unfair.

They die because founders make the same mistakes.

1. They grow too fast

Twelve Cupcakes started as a tiny shop in Singapore. Two people. Cupcakes selling out by lunchtime.

So they expanded. 1 outlet became 17. Then franchising. Then other countries.

But systems never caught up. Payroll stayed manual. Compliance got sloppy.

Years later, those cracks turned into investigations, fines, and liquidation.

2. They spend too much

VC money hits the bank. Frugality feels optional.

Propzy wanted to modernise Vietnam's real estate. Over a thousand employees. Billions flowing through the platform.

Then COVID hit. Revenue dried up. But the costs stayed.

3. They pivot too slow

Hooq had big partners, big budgets, first-mover advantage in SEA.

But the market shifted fast. Content costs exploded. Consumers resisted paying.

Decisions crawled through layers of stakeholders. By the time reality was undeniable, the runway was gone.

4. Unsustainable business model

Tink Labs put free smartphones in hotel rooms. Raised $170M. Hit unicorn status.

Then roaming got cheap. Wi-Fi got everywhere. eSIM exploded.

Demand evaporated.

5. Lack of governance

This doesn't start with bad intentions. It starts with pressure. Valuations. Expectations. The fear of missing the next round.

eFishery was Southeast Asia's pride. Then a whistleblower came forward. Inflated revenue. Dual books. Shell companies.

If you simply don't make any of these 5 mistakes, you're already ahead of 90% of startups.

Just don't die.

Every Sunday, I break down one failed startup like this — so you can spot the warning signs before they turn fatal.

Join 21k+ founders here → https://lnkd.in/gdDrhgtq

P.S. Learning from your own mistakes is expensive. Learning from others is free.

Employees stopped getting paid. Vendors waited months. Customers who already paid for sofas were told to "be patient".

🇮🇩 Fabelio wanted to become Indonesia's IKEA — modern, affordable furniture for the rising middle class.

At its peak:
- $18M in total funding (500 Startups, Venturra, AppWorks)
- 20 experience centres across Indonesia
- 430 employees
- Unit economics positive since late 2017

But payroll started depending on investor funds that hadn't arrived yet.

By October 2022, the Commercial Court declared them bankrupt.

The business didn't fail because demand vanished. It failed because cash ran out before the next round came in.

Yesterday, I published the full story — the 2 mistakes that killed Indonesia's "local IKEA" and why positive unit economics didn't save them.

Read it here → https://lnkd.in/g9k7aHGU

P.S. VC money isn't revenue. The moment you need it to make payroll, you're already in trouble.

After writing 100+ failed startup stories, here are the 5 common mistakes I see founders tend to make and why their companies die.

Thanks for having me Ben Bagg!

I coach founders to scale properly, Host Founder F**K up nights, and tell Founder stories @ The F**K up Fridays Podcast.

Today, we have a special episode of Founder F**K ups. We’re taking a break from individual failure stories to zoom out and look at the patterns.

The repeatable mistakes that kill startups time and time again, and we have the perfect guest to guide us.

Admond Lee is the founder of The Runway Ventures, a weekly newsletter that has become required reading for over 60,000 founders by dissecting the anatomy of startup failures across Southeast Asia. 

A physicist-turned-data-scientist-turned- founder himself, Admond has a unique lens on what goes wrong. 

He’s not just reporting on the failures; he’s reverse-engineering them to find the signals.

Today, we’re not talking about one f**k up. We’re talking about the five most common red flags Admond sees in his research - the critical signals that a startup is on the path to failure. 

This is a masterclass in pattern recognition for every founder listening.

Watch on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gsKmWGam
Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g-QgP-wN

#Podcast #5redflags #startups #failure #mistakes

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