[weston]

I thought the best chapter was on Phillip Greenspun of ArsDigita. Phillip was forced out of his own startup by his board and he eventually maneuvered behind the scenes to regain control.

If there's a "Founders At Work 2.0", more stories about failures, mistakes, and how people learned from those failures+mistakes would be super helpful. Most startups aren't an overnight success or a unicorn with "rocketship" style growth. Learning more about the non-sexy, non-linear successes can be just as useful than reading about the unicorns.

[webmaven]

Unfortunately, to the extent that Greenspun regained control at all (which is questionable, given the out of court settlement that gagged him), it was much too late, most of the company's value had been destroyed, and seemingly so had Greenspun's taste for founding/running a company.

In some alternate universe, Philip Greenspun's ArsDigita became the leading platform provider for developing and deploying Application Service Providers (what we would call SaaS today) and their main competitor is Zimki founded by Simon Wardley.