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Comment by rokhayakebe | Hacker News Reader

You sound inexperienced, which is ok by the way.

There is nothing wrong with your cofounders. They are who they are and that's that. You spend the entire time looking for reasons to blame others, but my friend you should look into a mirror tonight because that is where you will face the problem.

You should try to develop your ability to pick partners, but even with a great partner you sound like someone who is way too emotional.

I thought I would never say this to anyone, but you are not ready to be a CEO. If the guys you thought would help you change the world, were not ready to confirm with your strategy and you stood there trying to fight it instead of explaining it, then you need more time and experience.

Sincerely.

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> I thought I would never say this to anyone, but you are not ready to be a CEO.

That's never a productive thing to say to someone. Either it's true - in which case one of the symptoms of their unreadiness is that they won't hear you - or it's false, in which case you're just wrong.

There've been many times when I've thought it about someone, but the only thing you can do there is avoid working for/with them.

I am inexperienced, and I probably wasn't ready to be the CEO for this venture.

It seems that a lot of people here took my posts to be me just blaming my partners, but that must be a light reading because I definitely talk about my own shortcomings, and I take responsibility for what ultimately happened. I've been looking in the mirror constantly for the last three months, and posting here is part of that process of reflection too.

Too emotional, talk too much. Try addressing those, update us in a year.

Will do :-)

You may not be ready to be a CEO-- you CERTAINLY aren't ready to be someone's co-founder and partner.

You can't make judgments without knowing the business plan and how they executed it. It's quite likely the entire venture was doomed and this guy held it together long after it would have been unsalvageable otherwise.

From what I've observed, part of being a founder and CEO is having a huge amount of confidence in yourself. I think erring on the side of overconfidence is much better than the other direction.

People who are really successful in these roles seem to be completely unafraid in business situations where a lot of fear would probably be warranted.

And there are always lots of people standing by and ready to offer up plenty criticism...

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