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LITERALLY (!!) blood, sweat, and tears. I am always amused when the founder glorifiers accuse employees of feeling entitled, and proceed to rattle off the list
by kzhahou 11y ago
LITERALLY (!!) blood, sweat, and tears.
I am always amused when the founder glorifiers accuse employees of feeling entitled, and proceed to rattle off the list of sacrifices which they don't realize everyone in the company must make in order to have success. Companies are a team effort. Good luck getting to 100-million-anything with only the founders' sacrificies.
- moron4hire 11y agoI literally have lost blood to some of my projects, but I have a hardware component to my tinkering.
- irishloop 11y agoSure. But they still stand the have the most to lose. If a company goes under, an employee loses a job. The founder loses... well... who knows. Everything they've put into it. The equity, the time, the money. All gone. That's the whole thing. As an employee, you agreed to the terms of your hiring. When the company I worked for was bought out, employees with 401K's were given a sizable (but hardly enormous) contribution to that as part of the owner's sale. We weren't owed that, but I did appreciate it. But it was never promised to me and I was paid for the work I did.
- EarthLaunch 11y agoYes, literally. Employees are not essential the way a founder is. That is obvious.
- AndyKelley 11y agoNo, not literally. The founder did not cut himself on the keyboard.
- the_rosentotter 11y agoBlood = health. There's no question running a startup often takes a toll on your health to some extent.
- AndyKelley 11y agoSo, you're saying that blood is a metaphor for health? Is that what you're saying? "Literally" means the opposite of "metaphorically".
- EarthLaunch 11y agoThat's not really worth answering, but I have literally bled in several different ways from health consequences of high stress mental work.