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> They were clearly in a "how much do you need electricity" phase of operations. I've worked at a place that literally got to that state: the offices power was
by nibbleshifter 4y ago
> They were clearly in a "how much do you need electricity" phase of operations.
I've worked at a place that literally got to that state: the offices power was cut off by the electricity company.
I pretty much stayed until near the bitter end, when I started trying to lay out the facts of life to the founder - there was no recovering from this, and he was at the point where he had dumped all his personal savings into the company to try keep it alive.
- hakfoo 4y agoHonestly, I'd sort of love to sit down with the founder again, aside from a chance to ask him if he's ever gonna show me the nine grand. He seemed to get wrapped in this relationship with an advertiser where he wanted to sell a $49 product, but was expected to pay $80 cost-per-conversion to get customers to it. He seemed to hope that designing the site correctly would push enough upsells and multi-unit sales to make the math work out. I sort of wonder what spell that advertiser had over him in that regard; I'm pretty sure you could literally hire people to go around and sell his product door-to-door for less.