Drew Chapin

startup culture · writer and speaker

I write and speak about startup failure, founder psychology, and how discoverability is changing on an AI-shaped web. I ran an adtech company that failed, and I am candid about why. Full bio at drewchapin.com.

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2026.05 HACKERNOON Research: Programmatic and News Aggregators Are Cooked, Social Is a Discoverability Terror

2025.11.09 HACKERNOON Crowdfunding Your Startup Is Making a Big Comeback

2025.10 CHAPIN.IO The Patterns of Startup Failure

2025.10.02 TALK "The Dangers of Over-Confidence" at Berkeley Haas

2025.08.28 HACKERNOON Wikipedia Rules Everything Around Me

2025.08.13 HACKERNOON Who Should Handle Your Digital ID?

2025.06 HACKERNOON The New Tools Rewriting the Web

2025.05.22 TALK "Founder-Friendly Really Means Isolation" at ACFE

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