<story><title>No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jondubois</author><text>The problem is that investors are too easy when it comes to giving second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth chances... And they absolutely suck at giving first chances to the right people.&lt;p&gt;Investors just sit there and assume that the right people will find them, but they don&amp;#x27;t. The right people are too busy working to be chasing down investors 24&amp;#x2F;7.&lt;p&gt;The first-timers who end up getting funded over and over again are usually the ones who network 24&amp;#x2F;7 and their only real talent is seducing investors who confuse their well-rehearsed talk for passion and intelligence.</text></comment>
<story><title>No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timothycrosley</author><text>Way to spin trying new ideas and having determination to find a way to succeed despite failures in a negative light? The fact this has become the norm is good! People used to think that all the smart people just came up with a good idea all the sudden out of luck, and never failed. The reality is the people who succeeded in the past in spectacular fashion, are the same people who failed over and over again in spectacular fashion (pivoted).</text></comment>