Re:Au Revoir
by bsaul on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:34PM
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i guess it's a cycle. When a company needs to innovate to build its first iterations then the founder role is crucial, but then come the time of finding the best way to make money out of the product, and have a sustainable and well organized company. In that moment, (technical) founders find themselves a bit bored. The ideal would be for them to get back to pure R&D for a year or two, to discover more paths for the company's future. The problem is that carriers in a company only go one direction. Once you are a C-something the only way left is out.
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Agreed. Most activities in big companies are not even remotely related to the core technology or idea that brought the company into existence. As company grows, training departments grow to train new clients, technical writing teams grow to write documentation in different languages, technical teams grow to support the many different operating systems and markets, HR department grow to support the many people now working at the company and soon the effort required to coordinate all these people is more than the effort put into the original product. Some founders adapt to the changing needs of the company some don't like all the admin.