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Disclosure: My company was bought by 500px, I left after only 9 months of vesting, and I'm still bound by an NDA. Andreessen Horowitz is backing 500px, I'm sur
by 3pt14159 12y ago
Disclosure: My company was bought by 500px, I left after only 9 months of vesting, and I'm still bound by an NDA.
Andreessen Horowitz is backing 500px, I'm sure (but I have no specific knowledge of) that whatever paperwork they argued over the months that Andy was the new CEO was properly vetted.
In my opinion, Oleg Gutsol was incredibly talented in a wide array of things and has a good heart, but sometimes the CEO that's fantastic for the first 20 employees isn't the one that excels for the next 200. I'm sure this isn't the last we've heard of him. He'll start something new and succeed with it as well. He has an incredible ability to figure out how users will actually see and use your app and what motivates them.
- jacquesm 12y agoI think the mistake was to try to stay on. Then you have the 'old captain' and the 'new captain' on the ship at the same time and that is a recipe for trouble if the desire for another CEO did not come from the old CEO. That's a thing I've seen play out in two other spots and in both cases it ended more or less like it did here (only substantially quicker). I fully agree with you on the 20/200 matter. I'm like that myself (and even the '20' is not my ambition but more along the lines of 'somebody has to do it').