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FailCon
Last discussed Oct 14, 2026
A conference founded by Cass Phillips in San Francisco in 2009 to celebrate and discuss startup failure. It shut down in 2014.
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The Failure Advice That's Ruining Your Life
Mark Manson · Oct 14, 2026
Failure, Solved
Mark Manson · Oct 7, 2026
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"The conference was called FailCon. Now, the founder, Cass Phillips, she had spent years in Silicon Valley, surrounded by startups that frequently failed."
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"Personally, I think FailCon probably failed for a simple reason, which is it's actually the same reason a lot of conferences fail, which is that it..."
Failure, Solved
· Oct 7, 2026
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