[warthog]

Thanks for the clear explanation. Had wondered at the time why this would happen.

Not to play the blame game but sounds like it comes down to cofounders just losing interest in their own company. Rest was just a side effect.

Unfortunately this is becoming more and more common. The cult of the irrational, warrior founder/CEO who takes the startup journey as literal life or death is even rarer.

What is even more weird to me is that I know founders who sleep 2-3 days in the office trying to make their startup work and grow, year after year.

They are hiring for people like you. They always get rejected for some reason.

Yet Silicon Valley natives get their way easily with great engineers like the ones in your team. I don't mean to offend anything, I have been just really curious what makes great people like your team go with founders who give up eventually. Cos I used to think you can sort of sense a founder who is not in it for life and death.