[spopejoy]

The founder portrait is surprisingly sympathetic given what a train wreck is being described. This one stood out for me:

> The founder has it all figured out: the problem was never the plan. The problem was the execution

"Execution" being one of those magic business words, I've said this exact thing but only once lampooned thusly did it dawn on me how psychotic it is. If VC-funded startups are almost by definition about "a big vision", then the vision is never wrong -- a self-consuming logic answered by the magic of Execution.

Interestingly, what is ignored there is the founder is also the CEO here, so if the execution was bad ... shouldn't he be fired?