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I wonder if there's a factor in the make-up of the founding team needed to raise money and gain traction through credibility, that leads to this? The leadershi
by g_p 6y ago
I wonder if there's a factor in the make-up of the founding team needed to raise money and gain traction through credibility, that leads to this?
The leadership and management issues being so common makes me wonder if the resulting founding teams lack the experience of running technical teams and cultivating a good environment and morale. I suspect it's inherently NP-hard to manage a tech team whose work you can't yourself do. I imagine little of the founding C-suite of "health' startups has experienced the "length of a piece of string" engineering deadline when trying to solve complex issues etc, and perhaps that feeds into culture?
- rubatuga 6y agoI highly doubt it’s NP hard, given that humans have a hierarchical structure. Even if you assume a fully connected graph, you still only have n^2 connections. Nonetheless, I believe that it is mainly the fact that health itself is hard to iterate on, and requires knowledge from so many domains. It’s possible that the employees who were frustrated in the companies were expecting quicker iterations.
- LyndsySimon 6y agoI admit I hadn’t read your comment when I posted a sibling to it. I agree with you. I think successful healthcare tech companies go through a growth stage first where the key is a solid basis in the healthcare field. Engineering experience isn’t as important in the beginning... right up to the point where everything comes to a screeching halt as tech debt reaches the point where it rapidly expands to consume pretty much all of the engineering team’s time.