Similar experience and position to yours, but for three years. There were some good people and the product had a very novel appeal when you first encountered it

Similar experience and position to yours, but for three years. There were some good people and the product had a very novel appeal when you first encountered it. Eventually what caused this meltdown are two things: 1. Rony’s reality distortion field extending way too far for the companies own good 2. A complete lack of managerial cohesion and competence. Turf wars, selfishness, lack of vision. Very rarely anyone got fired. Resources were wasted on multiple parallel efforts which were politically driven. The company spread geographically very early with very little cooperation or shared culture. There were some talented individuals but shadowed by what was going on with the senior management. I still have a warm place for the company, the product and the people, but the real magic is that they survived for so long going like that.