Nathan Lustig, the managing partner of Magma Partners, a seed stage investment fund, shares his perspective on how he views founders with a failed startup under their belt.

Learn more about Nathan:
- Blog: https://www.nathanlustig.com/about/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathanlustig
- Magma Partners website: https://www.magmapartners.com/
- Crossing Boarders podcast with Nathan Lustig: https://latamlist.com/crossing-borders-with-nathan-lustig/

- Episode with Alejandro Freund: https://latamlist.com/alejandro-freund-the-path-to-shutting-down-a-latin-american-startup-ep-132/

Praful Mathur shares his experience with building a YCombinator company and loosing his  co-founders and biggest investor in the process. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/prafulmathur/

Ayush Kumar shares his experience with shutting his company and trying to get back into the workforce afterwards. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akumar0630/

Peer and I talk about his experience with shutting down his company Mage and getting an acquisition offer for his newer company Lean Hire, from On Deck, the very next day, which was when we recorded this episode. 

Peer now serves as the head of product at On Deck. 

Lean Hire Acquisition: https://www.beondeck.com/post/lean-hire

João De Paula previous co-founder and CTO of Glio, the Amazon market place for Latin America shares his story about building the company and having to shut it down after 6 plus years of running it. 

Gaurav Maken, previous co-founder of YCombinator's Mylk Guys shares his experience with building a growing business that he had to shut down at the height of their growth. Gaurav talks about the importance of focusing on what matters for your business and the importance of learning from the successes and failures of founders.

https://twitter.com/gauravmaken
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-maken/

Colin Hayhurst a successful entrepreneur , and startup mentor, shares his experience in starting and shutting down the YCombinator backed company GoScale that he co-founded with James Cunningham. 

The YC practice interview app, referred too, can be found here and the associated TechCrunch article here.

Colin has a deep technical and commercial background with startups in engineering and applied physics software, web infrastructure, machine learning and search. He alo spent several years supporting and mentoring numerous technology startups. He is the CEO of Mojeek, the first privacy based and only web-crawler search engine that does not track.

Renji Bijoy, founder and CEO of ImmersedVR talk about his company AraJoy which pivoted to becoming Immersed. He talk about the process he went through to realize that his initial ideas was bad and that he needed to pivot. He also talks about his startup hack to finding good developers for cheap and more. 

Connect with Renji:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RenjiBijoy
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renjibijoy/