Is a company that's been going for 10 years still a startup? Perhaps it's just me, but I just wouldn't assume that joining a 10 year old company (especially one

Is a company that's been going for 10 years still a startup? Perhaps it's just me, but I just wouldn't assume that joining a 10 year old company (especially one that had essentially been spun out of a another venture, Think Vitamin) was a risky venture in the silicon valley startup kind of a way? But I strongly agree with you on the metrics thing. Sure, all those feel-good internal metrics are important, but if your subscription business has fewer subscribers this month than last then that's bad news. Complaining that "keeping the company solvent" was the CEO's main focus is a weird thing to complain about.