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Founder's Journal

Business Autopsy: Why Fintech Startup Fast Failed

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a convo between me and entrepreneur, Codie Sanchez about the now dead checkout startup, Fast. We break down what went wrong and what other business builders can learn from Fast’s mistakes. Check out full episode transcripts at https://foundersjournal.morningbrew.com to learn more, and if you have any ideas for our show, email me at [email protected] or my DMs are open @businessbarista Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone, this is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning

0:05.5

Brew.

0:06.5

Welcome back to Founders Journal, where I give you the business builder, the tools you

0:10.5

need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business, a team

0:14.8

or a new product.

0:16.0

I recently sat down with my good friend, fellow entrepreneur and all-star investor Cody

0:20.6

Sanchez, and we tried out talking through three different topics that we thought would

0:25.5

be exciting to the Founders Journal audience.

0:27.7

Now, we're going to release those as three different episodes, and then we're going

0:31.8

to ask you the audience to tell us which of those three you liked and why.

0:36.0

This episode is part three of the series.

0:38.4

If you haven't listened to parts one and two, make sure to go back and check them out.

0:42.6

Part one was all about buying an oddly satisfying slime business.

0:46.9

Part two was Cody breaking down my mini golf empire that I am in the process of building,

0:52.7

but today's episode is a conversation between me and Cody about the now dead checkout

0:57.6

start-up fast.

0:59.0

We break down what went wrong and what other business builders can learn from fast mistakes.

1:04.5

Let's hop into it.

1:10.5

Did you see what happened with fast this company?

1:14.7

Yeah, I hate hitting on companies post-partum because this shit's hard, I get it.

1:21.0

Like tell me there was somebody who was a founder or an investor.

1:24.3

Who didn't see that?

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