Wonder if the author could speak about how him already being a founder played into the equation.
Let's say he was a software dev, no team lead, no manager, individual contributor. How would things play out?
Let's say he was a software dev, no team lead, no manager, individual contributor. How would things play out?
Having founded and run CB Insights certainly helped mostly cuz I had some sense of where to focus.
In this case, we had product-market fit to use a tech term. My dad's product was great.
And so I didn't need to worry about that. If I had to worry about that, this probably doesn't unfold as it did.
That meant I just had to worry about 2 things:
1. Making sure we were buying raw materials at rates that allowed us to sell the product profitably 2. 'Ringing the register' aka making sales. And that ultimately is not intellectually hard but just requires effort, i.e. researching, calling, emailing, etc.
So the honest answer is I don’t know.
Tbh, getting on HN today was completely unexpected.
I believe you can subscribe via email for updates. And hopefully I’ll figure out the RSS thing soon as well. Thanks
I just started getting a few texts from friends saying 'your post is on HN' and was confused. Prob been 10 years since anything I wrote has been on here so was an unexpected surprise especially as the comments are almost all quite nice (didn't expect that :)
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