[offices]

>It also forces you to keep pivoting and finding a cash cow rather than assuming your initial plan was any good.

Formative experience: working at a startup, coming upon a fundamental technical problem that will prevent delivery of any of our revenue generating projects & realising that anyone who has spent a meaningful amount of time working on the software would notice the same problem. Noticing nobody else has brought it up.

[grvdrm]

I feel you. In a similar experience now.

Valuation (I’m told) depends on ARR. Company not really set up to generate meaningful ARR from its core business. I keep hearing “it will get better” but as far as I see, the problem is squarely at the top and some specific deputies. So, why do I keep hearing that?

It sounds like very poorly messaged religion some days.

[mooreds]

Wow, quite a quandry. What did you do?

[throwaway2203]

Super curious as well

[offices]

It's not that exciting - I was already halfway out the door for unrelated reasons. It's a problem that almost any company in that space shares. It's made me put a strong premium on working for companies that sell a real product for real money, today.