Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years
I&#x27;m reminded of the story of Abe Wald: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@penguinpress&#x2F;an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-be-wrong-by-jordan-ellenberg-664e708cfc3d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@penguinpress&#x2F;an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...</a><p>He ran a statistics office during WW2, and collected data on surviving airplanes. To paraphrase his findings: reinforcements don&#x27;t go where the bullet holes are. They go where the bullet holes _aren’t_.<p>Similarly, when none of these mistakes killed the company, so to the extent that all companies are the same model of airplane flying in unfriendly skies, they shouldn&#x27;t consider these mistakes necessarily existential.