Founders on stage
Three or four speakers, each telling how a venture failed and what it actually cost them.
Program · Culture
The truth about failure, out loud.
Live evenings where founders tell the story of a business that failed, in front of a room. Pulse Foundation runs Brussels and Wallonia under licence.
What it is
Everyone tells the success story.
Belgium is hard on failure. That silence costs the next founder, who repeats mistakes nobody admitted to, and the one who never starts because failing looks fatal.
FuckUp Nights is a global format built to break that taboo, now in more than 250 cities across 70 countries. Speakers get a stage, a strict format and no room for the sanitised version.
- Format
- Live storytelling evenings
- Where
- Brussels and Wallonia
- Worldwide
- 250+ cities, 70+ countries
What happens
Stories, not war stories.
A room that has been there
Entrepreneurs, would-be entrepreneurs and the people around them, in a setting where saying it out loud is the point.
The taboo, weakened
Every told story makes the next one easier to tell, and failure a little less final in Belgian business culture.
In their words
The people who lived it.
Pulse is collecting testimonials for this program. They belong here, and nothing is written in their place: a quote nobody said is worse than an empty space.
Next step
Come to the next one.
Dates and tickets for the Brussels and Wallonia editions are on the FuckUp Nights site.
