9 Podcasts for first time founders
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I've just finished reading the excellent book recentley shared here⁰. Working through it made me realized that the start-up I joined is ignoring every advise in the book. The ycombinater youtube channel there is a great Sam Altman talk on starting-up¹ which drove the point home further (that I've bet on a losing horse).
As an engineer I constantly get bitten by joining awesome sounding new tech start-ups that despite awesome tech they don't survive the second year (they find a market fit and fail when scaling bc they ignore all the human aspects of what it means to be a company). And in my case it's never the tech that was at fault but lack of creating processes under which successful patterns can be repeated. Somehow it's always the dynamic of the people that dooms those projects. Every time I end up coming to the hard realization that there is no other option for me to quit the company after I've wasted a lot of time and nerves, and it's often more ugly than it should be.
At every startup the customers are different, the pain is different, the tech is different. But as people, no matter where we work, we're largely facing the same problems: "people stuff" Would love to see Startups get better at exposing and sharing good solutions to those problems