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> Candidly, my only qualification to run Atlas at this time was that I was the founder’s son. It seems like an even more important qualification was that the f
by mizzao 2y ago
> Candidly, my only qualification to run Atlas at this time was that I was the founder’s son.
It seems like an even more important qualification was that the founder's son was also a founder. Otherwise this would have been much less likely to work.
- peter_l_downs 2y agoMaybe. Frankly this is a very impressive outcome that is attributable both to the Father's business and management practices, as well as the Son's business and management practices. No matter how good you are at running a web business, if you inherit a totally fucked business with poor practices, very unlikely you could engineer this outcome. My condolences to the OP and I was happy to read such a well-written article describing a fantastic outcome for his father's company.
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- CPLX 2y agoIt’s an odd sentence to be honest. Being the son of the founder of a business has been the strongest qualification for running that business for at least 3,000 years. On top of that he had worked in this same company for two years, had an Ivy League degree, had worked both in startups and large scale investment banking firms, and had founded and run an unrelated $100M+ enterprise.
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y agoYeah, but other than that, ... ;-) The author was born/raised in the US which, not explicitly mentioned, means his father must have spent most of his time in India, away from the family, running the business. If so, that's a big sacrifice that the son amply reciprocated.