26 min

Lessons Learned From Shutting Down My Startup | #33 w/ Claudio Fuentes Inventing The Future

    • Entrepreneurship

Shutting down your company is perhaps one of the most difficult experiences that almost every founder has to go through at least once.

You usually only hear success stories of startups raising millions of dollars and getting millions of users but that is far from the common reality. More than 90% of startups fail.



So how do you deal with this tough reality? How do you communicate the news to investors and employees? And what mindset should you adopt moving forward so that you can get back on your feet?



In this episode, I spoke with Claudio Fuentes about shutting down his previous company, Noonshot. Claudio is a 3x founder and currently the co-founder of Leap, an API that lets you integrate AI Image Generation into any app.



Follow Claudio on Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/claud_fuen⁠

Connect with Claudio on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiofuen⁠

Check out Leap at: ⁠https://tryleap.ai⁠





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🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. F.inc is a community of relentless founders building epic companies: ⁠https://f.inc⁠

▶️ You can see the video recording of this episode on our YouTube channel: ⁠https://youtube.com/@inventing.the.future⁠

🎶 Music provided by Pablo Galbusera from ⁠Auribus.io⁠ - handcrafted music for all media

🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Wisdolia. Wisdolia is a Chrome extension that uses AI to generate flashcards for any PDF / article so that you can better ingrain what you are learning. Check it out at: ⁠https://wisdolia.com⁠

🚀 OUR MISSION: Our mission is to introduce you to the ideas and founders that will inspire and empower you to solve the world's biggest problems.





🦜 FOLLOW US on socials for small doses of podcast clips, startup wisdom, tech entrepreneurship stories, news, and more



▶️ TikTok: ⁠https://tiktok.com/@inventing.the.future⁠

📷 Instagram: ⁠https://instagram.com/inventing.the.future⁠

📧 Newsletter: ⁠https://bit.ly/itf-newsletter⁠





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📅 Connect With Julian: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianalvarez42

Shutting down your company is perhaps one of the most difficult experiences that almost every founder has to go through at least once.

You usually only hear success stories of startups raising millions of dollars and getting millions of users but that is far from the common reality. More than 90% of startups fail.



So how do you deal with this tough reality? How do you communicate the news to investors and employees? And what mindset should you adopt moving forward so that you can get back on your feet?



In this episode, I spoke with Claudio Fuentes about shutting down his previous company, Noonshot. Claudio is a 3x founder and currently the co-founder of Leap, an API that lets you integrate AI Image Generation into any app.



Follow Claudio on Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/claud_fuen⁠

Connect with Claudio on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiofuen⁠

Check out Leap at: ⁠https://tryleap.ai⁠





______________________________________________________________________

🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. F.inc is a community of relentless founders building epic companies: ⁠https://f.inc⁠

▶️ You can see the video recording of this episode on our YouTube channel: ⁠https://youtube.com/@inventing.the.future⁠

🎶 Music provided by Pablo Galbusera from ⁠Auribus.io⁠ - handcrafted music for all media

🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Wisdolia. Wisdolia is a Chrome extension that uses AI to generate flashcards for any PDF / article so that you can better ingrain what you are learning. Check it out at: ⁠https://wisdolia.com⁠

🚀 OUR MISSION: Our mission is to introduce you to the ideas and founders that will inspire and empower you to solve the world's biggest problems.





🦜 FOLLOW US on socials for small doses of podcast clips, startup wisdom, tech entrepreneurship stories, news, and more



▶️ TikTok: ⁠https://tiktok.com/@inventing.the.future⁠

📷 Instagram: ⁠https://instagram.com/inventing.the.future⁠

📧 Newsletter: ⁠https://bit.ly/itf-newsletter⁠





🎧 Other Platforms to Listen On



🎙 Spotify: ⁠https://bit.ly/itf-spotify⁠

🍎 Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://bit.ly/itf-apple⁠





📅 Connect With Julian: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianalvarez42

26 min