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10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail and How You Can Avoid It


Are you an entrepreneur building a technology company and looking to grow fast? This show teaches and inspires entrepreneurs to build better companies by learning from the failures of other tech companies and entrepreneurs.  Hosts Audrey Russo and Jonathan Kersting are from the Pittsburgh Technology Council with decades of experience helping tech entrepreneurs.

Jul 26, 2022

Without a doubt, Patrick Colletti has one of the most unique stories building a tech company in Pittsburgh. More than two decades ago as an early hire at a struggling, near-bankrupt startup, he and Chris Hayes were given an opportunity to turn the company around. A 90-day runway was a longshot like no other, but a chance Colletti and Hayes would take. They got the take-it-or-leave-it call the weekend after September 11, 2001!

It was a journey and blueprint he would later call the “Refounding” of a company. It turned into a decades-long experience that shaped Colletti and created one of the country’s most successful health IT companies. 

The Pittsburgh Technology Council's Jonathan Kersting tells you more about his story with insights from Patrick.