Nick and his cofounder applied with an edtech business that they grew to $300k+ revenue a year after YC. But they lost conviction that it would ever be huge after realizing that it wasn't going to be scalable, and they decided to pivot.
That decision turned into months of pivot hell, trying all kinds of ideas that they had no expertise in. Eventually, Nick’s technical cofounder decided to leave, which led to the lowest point in Nick’s life.