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Ask HN: Can a start up succeed with a CEO that no one wants to work for?
Our start up has ten "A player" employees and visionary CEO that very smart and capable himself, but all recent progress has existed without him and every project he joins dies, or at the very least stalls until he leaves.
- PaulHoule 10y agoNot without exceptionally good luck.
- sbierwagen 10y agoNope.
- meerita 10y agoNo
- endswapper 10y agoIt sounds like you don't like this guy even if you respect his abilities. If everyone here validates your implied assumption that "a startup can't succeed with a CEO no one wants to work for," what will you do? On the other hand, if everyone here tells you, "sure it can succeed because people do all sorts of things they don't want to," what will you do?
- underthunder 10y agoI was hoping for more than yes/no answers, so thank you. I suppose I will continue to grind it out..
- endswapper 10y agoYou asked a yes or no question, so there should be little surprise that's most of what you received. Interestingly, my response was the only one that wasn't a simple yes or no. I wasn't dismissing your question and I wasn't baiting you. My point was to get the information needed to offer a substantive response, which you confirmed is what you are seeking. If you are hoping for more I think you need to at least take steps to make that possible, i.e. provide more information, respond to the questions asked, rephrase the question to not make it a yes or no response, etc.