Is success or failure brought by chance or through one’s own actions? How I learned to build products people care about.  

I’m insanely excited and honored to be writing a column at Fast Company Labs. It will be a narration of things I’m learning while building Draft.

Two years ago I crashed and burned at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. When I realized what I had done wrong, I endeavored to build Draft, a new way to improve people’s writing, without repeating my mistakes–and I think it’s working. Here’s what I did differently.

I introduce Draft and a process I’m using to try and build something innovative to help people write better, while avoiding more technology for technology’s sake. Also, how I met Ashton Kutcher :)

Here’s the article.