{"id":11,"date":"2013-05-17T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtofailure.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2013-05-18T01:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T01:10:13","slug":"drawn-to-scale-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roadtofailure.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Drawn to Scale is Closing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(theme song by\u00a0<PIG><\/a>)<\/p>\n

Friends,<\/p>\n

I’m sad to announce that Drawn to Scale is closing up shop. After 4 years of a brutal, exciting journey starting when I was 25 — we’ve given all we can.<\/p>\n

Why? It seemed we had everything going for us — paid customers such as American Express, a major telecom, Flurry, and 4 others. Our technology worked brilliantly, we had a big hiring pipeline, and we had great media presence against our competitors who raised 10-100x more cash.<\/p>\n

Yet five days before we signed term sheets for a big A round or sold the company, we started getting hit by a series of black swans — and we just didn’t have what we needed to recover. I’ll leave the public detail at that level, but I will say that paying employees’ health insurance out of your meager savings is a powerful incentive to change course.<\/p>\n

In a few months I’ll have a very detailed postmortem with what went well and how we screwed up, but for now I’m going to enjoy freedom, a regular sleep schedule, and helping others.<\/p>\n

Andre Durand has asked me to join Ping Identity as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence helping them build some amazing new stuff for developers. I’m also advising several startups, sitting on some boards, and doing some *extremely* limited consulting.<\/p>\n

xoxo.<\/p>\n

BTW, if anyone wants more t-shirts, I’m totally gonna print some.<\/p>\n

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