Raising $5.5M to Build the Community Platform for Creators

Interview with Andrew, Circle's founder

🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

This week, I started working on a new project within Failory called the Google Cemetery, a place where we'll analyze the +100 failed products and projects from Google. This week, I started with Google Glass, one of the biggest failures of the company.


The Google Cemetery is also one of my first steps towards increasing the organic traffic of the site, which my goal is to grow to 150k users per month, as I've mentioned a few weeks ago. Fingers crossed it works!

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INTERVIEW

Raising $5.5M to Build the Community Platform for Creators

Andrew, Sid and Rudy were employees at Teachable. Working there, they came across many creators wanting to build communities around their audiences but lacking the tools to do it. Circle aimed to solve this. They built the first version in one month and soon began to get early customers. Since then, they have raised $5.5M and got thousands of customers.

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Here's why Google Glass was discontinued

Google Glass was one of Google's main failures. Despite the product was received with a lot of hype, it only lasted for two years. Learn from Google's mistakes!

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