In retrospect I can see that I was wrong about almost all of the points I made about the future during that talk. I was making the best projections I could with the information that I had, but it was incomplete and based on a few false assumptions. By the end of the summer my company went under and I spent the next few months shutting down the business.

A year later I had the opportunity to give a talk about how my company failed. I was able to return to the Solid stage and talk about some of the lessons that I learned along the way. My talk about failure was roughly four times longer than my first talk. (I still feel bad about running long and cutting into Ian's time. Sorry Ian) (I also committed the cardinal sin of video presentations and didn't repeat questions into the mic. Sorry everyone.)