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It's very common for the founders and early employees to be friends prior to the startup. He may have very well lost friends. He didn't elaborate, so we really

It's very common for the founders and early employees to be friends prior to the startup. He may have very well lost friends. He didn't elaborate, so we really don't know.

vmception 6y ago
My former co-founder thinks we are friends, he is a talentless hack that speaks business world bullshit and ideas that don't make any sense because they don't. I just needed the +1 to get funded. It worked. He is your typical idea guy: no skills, no capital, no ability to execute. I think we have good synergy for his ability to get behind a vision and repeat it to other people the same-enough way. Reading this thread makes me wonder if he would be posting on here about the "friends" he lost.
- s5300 6y ago
  Holy crap lmao. Are you completely oblivious as to how much of a dick you sound like? Here's a societies claimed moral compass nice thing to do: tell him you aren't friends, possibly give him the reasons why, and leave it like that. Don't come to HN trying to humble yourself in posting this. I bet you're a ton of fun
  - vmception 6y ago
    Yeah I am a condescending dick - to people with no skills, no capital, no ability to execute. They don't typically bring anything to the table! I happened to internalize the idea of a co-founder with somewhat of a network to resurrect an idea that needed to be funded, and I can say that yes it did get me/us taken more seriously. I'm finding solidarity in this thread amongst the engineers that also are annoyed with over embellishing business sales guys that don't have a clue.
    - s5300 6y ago
      Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but the "solidarity" amongst engineers in this thread is somewhat close to "fuck the money, be more of a moral ethical human" which is so, so far from what you've described. I don't think you should automatically lump yourself in with them. Yes, I, and many others, have something close to the same feelings you do towards these types. However, we don't pride ourselves on being manipulative wolves and going "hehe I actually hate you" under our breath. Have you, perhaps, considered, that he maybe feels the same way about you, but is even more of a manipulative asshole and has strung you along more than you can possibly imagine by being a complete psychopath? Anyways, there's probably not much of a point in trying to reason with somebody like you. If you can't tell, if there were only "you's" and "hims" in the world... it would only end in two petty parties, and then war, with no good for the hypothetical humanity at all. Enjoy your money and your arguably strange views on making the future a brighter place.
      - vmception 6y ago
        we didn't get funded on that future a brighter place trope. its just as fine if they're a complete sociopath, they got an executive position after all (just like me). cash out, move on. don't get neumann'd
Aunche 6y ago
The part about friends elaborated on all the interested and talented people he met, so I’m assuming they were new acquaintances.

It's very common for the founders and early employees to be friends prior to the startup. He may have very well lost friends. He didn't elaborate, so we really don't know.

vmception 6y ago

My former co-founder thinks we are friends, he is a talentless hack that speaks business world bullshit and ideas that don't make any sense because they don't. I just needed the +1 to get funded. It worked. He is your typical idea guy: no skills, no capital, no ability to execute. I think we have good synergy for his ability to get behind a vision and repeat it to other people the same-enough way. Reading this thread makes me wonder if he would be posting on here about the "friends" he lost.

s5300 6y ago
Holy crap lmao. Are you completely oblivious as to how much of a dick you sound like? Here's a societies claimed moral compass nice thing to do: tell him you aren't friends, possibly give him the reasons why, and leave it like that. Don't come to HN trying to humble yourself in posting this. I bet you're a ton of fun
- vmception 6y ago
  Yeah I am a condescending dick - to people with no skills, no capital, no ability to execute. They don't typically bring anything to the table! I happened to internalize the idea of a co-founder with somewhat of a network to resurrect an idea that needed to be funded, and I can say that yes it did get me/us taken more seriously. I'm finding solidarity in this thread amongst the engineers that also are annoyed with over embellishing business sales guys that don't have a clue.
  - s5300 6y ago
    Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but the "solidarity" amongst engineers in this thread is somewhat close to "fuck the money, be more of a moral ethical human" which is so, so far from what you've described. I don't think you should automatically lump yourself in with them. Yes, I, and many others, have something close to the same feelings you do towards these types. However, we don't pride ourselves on being manipulative wolves and going "hehe I actually hate you" under our breath. Have you, perhaps, considered, that he maybe feels the same way about you, but is even more of a manipulative asshole and has strung you along more than you can possibly imagine by being a complete psychopath? Anyways, there's probably not much of a point in trying to reason with somebody like you. If you can't tell, if there were only "you's" and "hims" in the world... it would only end in two petty parties, and then war, with no good for the hypothetical humanity at all. Enjoy your money and your arguably strange views on making the future a brighter place.
    - vmception 6y ago
      we didn't get funded on that future a brighter place trope. its just as fine if they're a complete sociopath, they got an executive position after all (just like me). cash out, move on. don't get neumann'd

Aunche 6y ago

The part about friends elaborated on all the interested and talented people he met, so I’m assuming they were new acquaintances.