Leticia Gasca, Co-founder Fuckup Nights, Talks About the Art of Messing Up
Why It Matters
Director and co-founder Leticia Gasca quit her day job to grow Fuckup Nights, a global series to celebrate, liberate, and learn from what did not work. Failure is much discussed, but has the pendulum swung too far now? If we can accept failure, perhaps we have come to glorify it too much. Now, itโs about finding the balance.
I was born in Mexico City and I was part of a middle income bubble, where you think you understand the world. Later, while studying business administration, I met women working as artisans in isolated Indigenous communities. I bought one of their bags and many of my friends complimented me on it. I thought I could start a social enterprise and I did everything by the book. I did a long business plan filled with assumptions, found partners, and investors, and after two years the business failed. Why? The financial planning was awful.
What is it like for you when you had that realization?
I was in denial until one night I was playing with the spreadsheets trying to figure out how the business could be profitable and I realized I didnโt know how to save this social entreprise. I realized the be
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