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Poosarla Sai Karthik

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Startups are shutting down at a rate no oneโ€™s talking about loud enough. In the last 18 months, over 28,000 in India alone have gone silent. Globally, names like Zeen, Astra, Locale, Nikola, and EasyKnock are well-funded, hyped, and headline-ready are gone. Zeen raised $9M. Pandion pulled in $125M. EasyKnock raised over $450M. Nikola and other EV players collectively burned through billions before collapsing. Even early-stage AI startups in India shut down weeks after raising funds. The money is not just disappearing. Itโ€™s vanishing in the same patterns. Founders say the usual things. Couldnโ€™t raise the next round. Burn was too high. Pivot didnโ€™t land. Cofounders werenโ€™t aligned. Market shifted. But hereโ€™s what that really means. They tried to scale before understanding their user. Hired before product-market fit. Sold a great story to investors but ignored the tough questions inside. Some fell in love with the product instead of the problem. Most waited too long to face what wasnโ€™t working. Startups rarely die the day the money runs out. They start dying quietly months earlier when the founders stop being brutally honest with themselves.

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