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I have no idea why someone would post something like this, and I can only attribute it to complete lack of responsibility and quite frankly: lack of common sens
by Meai 15y ago
I have no idea why someone would post something like this, and I can only attribute it to complete lack of responsibility and quite frankly: lack of common sense. Do you want your company to fail? Do you want it to perform 2% less than before? Because that's what you are doing right now.
- hamner 15y agoF--- that. He approaches his position with humility, an understanding of what he doesn't know, and a desire to learn it. Instead of reveling in whatever success his startup has had, he's candidly looking forward to learn what he needs to grow his business.
- Meai 15y agoWhich he should do in private.
- 18pfsmt 15y agoI simply disagree. I believe that good companies will head in this direction of transparency. We all know that all humans have faults, and acknowledging them upfront goes a long way with some like myself. TBH, you sound like my 75 yr old father that ran a $2B business for the last 23 years, and I guess I hope that attitude goes away with our elders.
- billforsternz 15y agoPuzzling, you make it sound like running a $2B business for 23 years is a bad thing.
- devspade 15y agoI think it takes some guts to admit publicly the self doubt that every founder probably struggles with at one point or another. So many people out there are documenting their successes and triumphs or maybe doing post postmortems on their mistakes. It's a refreshingly different and honest perspective.
- aberman 15y agoI haven't met the guy, but now I like him. And I am pulling for him. So he has accomplished at least that. And don't worry, his investors knew that he had no idea what he was doing when they wired him the money. If they didn't, it's their own fault. At least he knows what he doesn't know, which is more than I can say for most people.
- daleharvey 15y agoDo you honestly believe a single person is going to stop using svpply because they read that the founder / ceo is realistic about the challenges coming his way?
- Meai 15y agoI have no idea, and that's my point. I think it will have unforseeable effects. Interaction with future business partners, friends, talks with possible employees who read it and decide not to apply. Everything is coloured from now on.
- daleharvey 15y agoI agree its impossible to know for certain what effects this will have, but I definitely dont think they will all be negative. Its a slow transition but its becoming acceptable for business to not operate as if they were big brother, and not all communication needs to be double speak, sure the CEO of goldman & sachs isnt going to get away with a blog post like this, but a young bookmarking startup, the only negative reactions are from people saying "this isnt the done way", with actual reason for it being negative.
- yuhong 15y agoYea, the illusion that celebrities are perfect needs to die. It dates back to the days of "legacy" PR which was based on controlling the meesage. Welcome to the PR 2.0 age (one name for it).
- Unseelie 15y agoyou cannot make the argument that unforseeable effects are patently bad. You're contradicting your terms, and arguing that you have an inkling that it would be bad, rather than, possibly, good.
- Meai 15y agoRisk is bad in business, anything unforseeable should be avoided. Do you really want to stake the success of your business on luck?
- c0riander 15y agoDespite the downvotes, I actually think this comment is quite a useful viewpoint. Posting something like this is a risky thing to do, and I'd be curious to know either in this situation down the road or other similar ones whether this gambit pays off. Does the goodwill-via-brutal-honesty outweigh potential loss of consumer/employee confidence?