Penny, if you do end up reading the comments on here, be sure of a few things:
You have generated more traffic to their site than Jess ever will.
You are not alone in your experiences.
You are obviously a great professional and you will probably do well.
You have shamed the company into probable closure (which is a good thing) as the guy would get worse with more money and bigger teams.
For everyone involved in a startup there are huge risks. Most of the risks are borne by the founders, they get handsomely rewarded if things go well.
But they often don't. I wish the startup community would take heed at this great story and be more honest about the risks, instead of following the hype train.
Macho ego bullshit is to blame for a lot of wasted effort.
But it's really good to hear that you are back with your cat.
A rant: I hate the "in crowd" subtext that goes on with all these postmortem posts.
People in-the-know know what company and people are being discussed in these posts. Accordingly, "I know privileged information." banter is thrown around.
I wish that, for the sake of those outside the loop (me at least), people either name-names or take the wink-nods to a private message.
This is probably going to be a very unpopular (ie: negative karma) rant, but those of us outside the SV echo-chamber get hit by this all the time.
> People in-the-know know what company and people are
> being discussed in these posts.
> I wish that, for the sake of those outside the loop (me
> at least),
Read on to the comments below. You are "in the loop" ;)
You have generated more traffic to their site than Jess ever will.
You are not alone in your experiences.
You are obviously a great professional and you will probably do well.
You have shamed the company into probable closure (which is a good thing) as the guy would get worse with more money and bigger teams.
For everyone involved in a startup there are huge risks. Most of the risks are borne by the founders, they get handsomely rewarded if things go well.
But they often don't. I wish the startup community would take heed at this great story and be more honest about the risks, instead of following the hype train.
Macho ego bullshit is to blame for a lot of wasted effort.
But it's really good to hear that you are back with your cat.