From my point of view, the biggest pain points were:
- Below market salary, even for Santa Barbara.
- Seven Ph.D's running development seven different ways, leading to:
- Many Silos between departments, development, and delivery.
Even with all of that said, they were an amazing company to work for and had an amazing team of software developers, sales folks, and support team. I remember one day that Marten came in after Enterprise gave him a very nice Audi Convertible as a rental and he threw his keys in the middle of the engineering fishbowl telling the developers to take it out for a spin.
I believe I was employee 35-ish. I know that a few of the founders had plans to get sports jerseys made when they hit 50 employees with numbers 1-50 on the back.
Congrats to the team.