Silicon Valley’s ‘fail your way to success’ mantra can be deadly to startups

GUEST: It’s true that risk-taking is necessary to entrepreneurial achievement and failure can be instructive. But somehow those simple truths have morphed into something dangerous: a blind belief in the positive power of failure. It happened the way meanings get changed in a game of telephone. The words are passed from lip to ear, from ear to lip, and from lip to ear, changing a little each time, until the idea no longer resembles its original.
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