updated 6mo ago
Being a Startup Founder is a minimum wage job — Here’s the proof
sari and added
- To grow as fast and as much as their stunning valuations required of them, too many start-ups have apparently ballooned out the balance sheet with expensive hires. Thank goodness we’ve decided it’s the cost of the people that’s the problem, and not the insane valuations and millions in venture capital that threatened to drown the fledgling business... See more
from VCs act wise as everyone in start-ups gets fired
Nick added
- For the past decade, our idolatry of startups and innovation has meant the focus has been: What can we disrupt? How fast can we grow? How big can we get? How much can we raise?
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the p... See morefrom Can I Ramble for a Sec? by sublimeinternet.substack.com
Britt Gage added
Founders need a new way of thinking, of building, of support that allows them to drive systematic, methodical and meaningful change.