I did a start-up some years ago where we were four founders. It was a pretty good match, a technical guru, a marketing guy, a sales guy and me to bind it all to

I did a start-up some years ago where we were four founders. It was a pretty good match, a technical guru, a marketing guy, a sales guy and me to bind it all together. The sales guy was employed at a fortune 500 company and was managing a sales budget of around 300 mill. $ at an age of thirty. An absolute hotshot. Unfortunately it turned out that he was used to managing large budgets and lots of people, and he simply dragged us down. He couldn't make the transition from a large corporation to a start-up where the rules are very different. It all worked out well in the end - we bought him out and he went back to corporate. And we still have a beer together every now and then.