Goldman Sachs held its fourth annual Builders + Innovators conference for entrepreneurs earlier this month.
The event brings together entrepreneurs from a variety of industries, and Goldman Sachs took the opportunity to talk to a few startup founders and CEOs about their successes and failures.
The bank asked the attendees about "the best mistake they ever made on their path to success."
They also asked two of Goldman's own investment bankers the same question.
Here's what they said— and what the mistakes meant for their businesses.
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Leticia Pollock — cofounder, Panther Coffee
"My best mistake as an entrepreneur was to not do my homework when we decided to move to a new city and open a business somewhere [where] we didn't know anyone. If we knew how hard it would be, I probably [would have] never done it."
Leah Busque — founder and CEO, TaskRabbit
"I think it was waiting too long to actually start my company. I was at a big corporation for over eight years. It was a really cushy job, and it was a big decision to take that leap and leave. But once I did, I realized that this was something that — I had control over my own destiny and I could really change the world in the way I thought it should be."
Ramji Srinivasan — cofounder and CEO, Counsyl
"My best mistakes are the ones that I honestly had good intuition for and then the market or whatever didn't work out. And I never feel bad about those because I trusted my intuition. The ones I feel the worst about is when I didn't listen to my intuition — and those are ten times worse, inexcusable mistakes."
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