Today’s my last day as news editor at Sifted — five years after I joined the publication as a part-time foreign correspondent based in Spain, before coming on full time and moving back to London. Reporting on startups (while also working at one), during an exuberant and then painful boom and bust cycle, has taught me a lot about how tech companies grow and why they fail, as well as the herd mentality that can lead investors to coalesce around questionable ideas.
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