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by satishmreddy
5533 days ago
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"You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping out. ...... The important distinction is whether you risked everything, put your life on the line, made commitments to investors, employees, customers and friends, and tried – against all the forces in the world that try to keep new ideas down – to make something new." That is what pissed me off. I was not a founder. I did not have a house and I was not going to take any more CC debt. But I put everything else I had on the line. And Chris is telling me that unless I founded a company everything I gave up meant nothing. Even founders draw the line some where right. After that second mortgage? Similarly I had my line drawn some where too but it was pretty deep. |
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Being an early stage employee takes guts, it's respected and often they are going play a ginormous role in the success or failure of the company.
But's not the same as being a founder. There is nothing to get bent out of shape about. It's just different.
Similar to how the President bares the ultimate responsibility and stress even though the brave soliders in the field and the generals that command them pay the ultimate price at times.