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I think the implicit point is that if you are NOT a cofounder those feelings of ownership are unlikely to be matched by reality. As a non-founder you do not hav
by freewilly1040 8y ago
I think the implicit point is that if you are NOT a cofounder those feelings of ownership are unlikely to be matched by reality. As a non-founder you do not have the input and upside of an owner.
- jiveturkey 8y agoplease note that i am referring to the sense of ownership and responsibility that comes from being one of the important cogs. this is reality in a startup. i don't mean it in a legal/financial sense, and i am not referring to any extrinsic reward, eg financial upside.
- derefr 8y ago> this is reality in a startup Five-year-old well-funded-and-profitable companies with 50 employees, where you as employee #50 are just there to toil away writing some dumb CRUD backoffice code—are still referred to as "start-ups." And, in fact, since the other kind of startup dies more often than it succeeds and grows into this kind, most startups that are hiring at any given moment are this kind of startup.
- jiveturkey 8y agoThe context in this sub-thread is specifically seed or series A startups.