Flow's $10M Asana Loss
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Andrew Wilkinson shares a story about losing $10M building project management software called Flow while competing against Asana.
"I've lost a lot of money doing SaaS. I poured $10M into Flow, a project management software, because I was competing with Asana and didn't understand the dynamic of when you're competing against an army that has unlimited budget. It's like Fiji fighting the United States.
I was going 'I'm gonna win this' - it's ridiculous. I lost $10M doing that and that was a great lesson but incredibly painful. I wish someone like me had tweeted about it and I could have read it instead of losing all that money."
Andrew Wilkinson
Co-founder of Tiny
Wilkinson is the co-founder of Tiny Capital, which owns companies including AeroPress, MetaLab and Dribble. He is also the co-founder and chairman of WeCommerce, a holding company that starts, buys, and invests in the world’s top Shopify businesses.