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Re:A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afte... by Solvency on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:09PM (#36481656)
Non-native English speaker here. What does "serial" mean in this context? Is it referring to a linear record of achievements/prior employment?
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Re:A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afte... by cooperaustinj on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:14PM (#36481719)
Sequential/ordered. One after another.
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Re:A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afte... by keithwhor on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:32PM (#36482019)
Notably, relating to a series of events. Serial.
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Re:A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afte... by marcosdumay on Monday June 26, 2023 @01:20PM (#36482776)
Yes, it's referring specific to a "large quantity" aspect of it. If you achieve some X, and then achieve X again, and again, people will trust you to achieve X again.

Of course, that leads to people faking past successful startups. There are plenty of successful serial entrepreneurs out there that sold stuff for pennies to their family or something like that.

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Re:A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afte... by sroussey on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:20PM (#36483599)
Someone that has failed has learned valuable lessons on someone else’s dime. That can be more valuable that someone that got lucky to get success.

Unless they figured out how to get lucky, then definitely follow the leprechaun…

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Re:A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afte... by krater23 on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:51PM (#36487387)
Serial trust like in serial killer.
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