Reading Guide
Failure, Resilience, Ethics, and Founder Judgment

Right Kind of Wrong

Amy C. Edmondson

The VMT Review

Edmondson distinguishes intelligent failures in genuinely uncertain territory from preventable failures caused by carelessness or failure to use existing knowledge. The distinction is highly relevant to product-market fit experiments and founder culture.

What the Reader Will Learn

Founders and mentors learn how to design experiments that generate useful information, create conditions for honest reporting, and stop romanticizing every failure as entrepreneurial progress.