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This meme humorously depicts an entrepreneur's failing attempts to achieve success, escalating from building a startup to creating courses and communities before finally resorting to giving free advice on Twitter.The transformation into a clown makeup visually represents the increasingly desperate yet comically absurd pivot that many founders experience when their ventures fail.

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