The Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur takes a suicide curtain call: or falls into the financial chain break predicament

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A continuous entrepreneur in Silicon Valley has chosen suicide after repeated defeats and repeated battles. Is it worth the cost of life to start a business?

Jodi Schollman, a 48-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Jody Sherman, who shot himself in the vicinity of Las Vegas this January 27, lamented the news. Sherman founded a number of companies, although each time to pay a great deal of effort, but they ultimately are difficult to escape the sale or closure of the fate. Ecomom, the last start-up company, financed $12 million trillion, still insolvent. Sherman when soldiers, repeatedly defeated and never give up, but finally chose to commit suicide. The tattoo on his wrist is: I'm great.

American Science and Technology blog site BusinessInsider through the Sherman of his former friends and colleagues of the investigation, with a lengthy report trying to uncover his choice to suicide mystery.

The following is the full text of the article:

Entrepreneurial failure discouraged

A few months ago in Sunday, Sherman originally met friends to go to the movies. But that afternoon, my friend received a call from Sherman's wife, Carrie, who said he was missing. Three hours later, Kelly called the Las Vegas police station, saying she had a bad feeling about her husband's accident.

11:12, police in the car near Nevada State Charleston Mountain (Mount Charleston), eventually found the body of Sherman, he had a bullet hole in the head, the incident to Las Vegas about 25 miles (about 40 km). The Clark County coroner's office found that Sherman died of suicide. And five days later, Sherman will welcome his 48 birthday.

Sherman suicide News in Twitter and other technology blog quickly spread, let countless people shixi unceasingly, and they also to Sherman why choose suicide confused unceasingly. He left no last words to his family. His last update on Facebook was written by his wife: "This is Jody's last message, but not from Jody himself." He's gone. It's not a joke. He's really gone, forever. He didn't say good-bye to anyone, because he knew he couldn't. So let me say it for him. If you see this message, you are in some way in contact with Jody. He loves you, respects you, appreciates you, values your existence in his life, or feels that there is some connection in these things. He wants all of you to know and understand this. Please leave here what you want to say to Jody. ”

Just days after Sherman's suicide, his company, Ecomom, convened a board meeting. At the meeting, another founder and board member of Ecomom found that the company was in fact already in a very dangerous state. A few weeks later, Ecomom shut down because of insolvency. In short, Ecomom is bankrupt.

The start-up company, which employs 28 employees, is running out of cash. Sadly, no one in the company seems to understand how ecomom can be reduced to this point. Just six months ago, Ecomom had just raised 5 million dollars, with a total financing of more than 12 million dollars.

Over the past six weeks, we have interviewed more than 10 people familiar with the matter, trying to understand what happened to Sherman and Ecomom in the last few months. Among them were his former colleagues, advisers, investors and confidants. Many of them were interviewed anonymously.

Everyone was shocked at what happened to Sherman, and a lot of people even had a feeling of being cheated. Everyone raises the question: what kind of a person is Sherman? What has changed in his life in the past few months and finally ended his life in a tragic way?

The tattoo on his wrist is: I'm great.