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Sometimes I wonder if there is a class of startup founders who are basically only doing what they are doing for their own personal brand building and after a fe
by dawhizkid 9y ago
Sometimes I wonder if there is a class of startup founders who are basically only doing what they are doing for their own personal brand building and after a few years or whatever you become semi well known enough in tech circles to parlay that into something else or an acceptance into some b-school and go back to a real job.
- aidaman 9y agoThat's exactly the vibe I got from the "cofounder" who is Head of PR. At 2% equity and $1,500 a month, that has to be the rawest deal I have heard of for someone who is essentially responsible for all of the company's traction.
- watmough 9y agoYeah, that stood out as some serious asymmetry.
- Disruptive_Dave 9y agoWell, "PR" is FAR from an actual growth lead. PR is a tactic within the overall marketing stable. No straight-up PR person is going to actually create, manage, and optimize growth beyond just PR.
- dawhizkid 9y agoYeah, not sure how you live on $18k/year salary in NYC unless you're being supported by your family, which is what I'm guessing is happening here for both of them. Not many people have a network of exclusively friends and family to fund their seed round to the tune of a few $100k...