The author is Naval Ravikant who is a wealthy VC and pseudo-philosopher. He's clearly a smart guy but also seemingly disconnected from reality at this point in his career.
A piece that has no facts backing the point, which exploits confirmation and conformity biases in readers, is just a badly researched and biased piece, regardless of author.
> Groups never admit failure.
> I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”
First statement does not follow from the second. The rest of the article is even worse in its sudden jumps to conclusions.