Fast: An Autopsy

Why the Stripe-backed checkout startup failed, and what we can learn from it

Kevin LaBuz
Marker
Published in
7 min readApr 17, 2022

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Photo by Jason Blackeye on Unsplash

Failure is a great teacher. Fast, a high profile one-click checkout startup backed by Stripe, went belly up on April 5th. The company’s failure offers lessons for investors and operators.

Fast 101: Passwords Don’t Scale

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Kevin LaBuz
Marker

Head of IR & Corporate Development at 1stDibs. Previously finance at Etsy, Indeed, and internet equity research at Deutsche Bank. Find me on Twitter @kjlabuz.