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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
Reddit Founders Used Failure As Fuel
For many, failure is a kick in the gut that is hard to recover from. But the creators of the now wildly famous website, Reddit, took failure and used it to spur them on.
Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman began Reddit in October of 2006 out of a tiny apartment in Boston. Only 3 months later, they received a call to meet with an executive for Yahoo! The two were obviously surprised and thrilled. Who would have thought their small start up would garner the attention of anyone so soon, let alone Yahoo!
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So off they went to meet with the executive. The meeting began with the pair explaining what Reddit is and how it works. When asked how much traffic they were getting to their site, they responded that they were getting around 10 or 11,000 visitors. The executive’s response?
“You guys are a rounding error compared to Yahoo! What are you doing here?”
The two used this harsh criticism to embolden them. Now, Reddit is massive, with roughly 114.5 million visitors each month. You can use failure to succeed!
