despite the challenge, I still think being a founder or early employee is incredibly awesome
coding, product, design, marketing, really all kinds of building for a user—is the ultimate test. it’s empirical, challenging, uncertain, tactical, and very real.
if you succeeds, you make something self-sustaining that continues to do good. if you fail, it will do bad. and/or die.
continues to survive and continues to do good are not guaranteed to be the same and often are directly opposed. it is much easier to build a product that keeps getting used than one that should.
it’s possible that yours is good for the world, but I suspect mine isn’t. I regret helping make it.
it’s easy to have a mission and almost every startup has one. only 10% of startups survive. but yes, surviving and continuing to do good is strictly harder.
I’m the other founder of vast.ai besides Jacob Cannell. I left in early 2019 partially induced by demotivation about the mission, partially induced by wanting a more stable job, partially induced by creative differences, and a mix of other smaller factors.
despite the challenge, I still think being a founder or early employee is incredibly awesome
coding, product, design, marketing, really all kinds of building for a user—is the ultimate test.
it’s empirical, challenging, uncertain, tactical, and very real.
if you succeeds, you make something self-sustaining that continues to do good.
if you fail, it will do bad. and/or die.
and no one will save you.
strongly agreed except that...
continues to survive and continues to do good are not guaranteed to be the same and often are directly opposed. it is much easier to build a product that keeps getting used than one that should.
it’s possible that yours is good for the world, but I suspect mine isn’t. I regret helping make it.
it’s easy to have a mission and almost every startup has one. only 10% of startups survive. but yes, surviving and continuing to do good is strictly harder.
what was your company?
I’m the other founder of vast.ai besides Jacob Cannell. I left in early 2019 partially induced by demotivation about the mission, partially induced by wanting a more stable job, partially induced by creative differences, and a mix of other smaller factors.