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by ex3ndr 3655 days ago
As CEO i can't recommend to do so. In most cases even when company have no traction or something can be pivoted to make revenue or gain user's attraction. Most of the employee usually can't understand this and make decisions too fast and you quitting can easily kill a startup, not lack of a traction.

Our company (Actor.im) was in such situation. And eventually we spent all our money and for a month we have nothing. During this we go open source (after advices on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9757243) and in a month we got our first customers and in a next year we was much more stable than before. We wasn't able to predict this. CEO have a chance (only small chance) to predict, but employee usually don't think about big picture long enough for this.

Try to think about people with whom you are working with, if you like it, stay with them. You will never regret working in dying startup with a nice people, but if you will quit...