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The kind of special it takes to start a company is a different kind of special it takes to run a company.
I worked in the startup space for over a decade, all failed, and all for the same reasons. Leadership/management/ownership refused to get out of their own way.
Well that's not true, one company had a scam product, but it was 6 figures so I did it anyway
Lets all help them share their startup
True or not? ;)
When your Boss is a programmer & humorous at the same time... :/
so the startup I used to work on, that ngl had an amazing product, is on its last legs.
It already was when I was let go coz they couldnt afford a full-time staff anymore but now they cant even sustain 0-staff company (ie just CEO/COO/investors remain)
It got millions of USD as grant in some competetion they won before I joined so both the idea and the product were good
Only thing that sucked was the CEO's attitude and their abhorent marketting skills and priorities
ANYWAY. It's bitter-sweet. Even the most well-made of products can fail just coz of the person-at-top not taking the right decisions at the right time.
And all my nudging could do was delay its eventual collapse
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