Real lessons learned from a startup that took risks – with Jason Shen

Jason Shen, Winning Isn't Normal, Failure, Marketplace, Selling 1-on-1

Jason Shen is the founder of Ridejoy, a community marketplace for long distance ride shares. I invited him here to hear how he built up the company and what happened afterwards.

He is also the author of a book called, Winning Isn’t Normal, and he has a blog called, “The Art of Ass-Kicking.”

Jason Shen is the author of Winning Isn’t Normal.

 

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. Both hands, hi. My name is Andrew Warner, hey, and another for…excuse me, and another set of hands there for my guest, Jason Shen. Let me go back to the beginning and start off by telling you, I’m Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart.

I love entrepreneurs. I love people who take risks. I love people who succeed after those risks, but people even who fail. If they take the freaking risk, I admire them like the start of that Nietzsche book, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” where he starts of by praising the man who was on the high wire and fell, because he took a chance.

I feel that’s what Mixergy is about, and I feel that’s what entrepreneurship is about, and I feel that’s what our startup community is about. When I read about the closing down of Ridejoy I was both disappointed and curious. The founder of the company was good enough to not just say,...

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