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Re:Ask HN: I want to start a new company, but I'm CEO at a f... by harshaw on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:17AM (#17012912)
I had the misfortune to work with a CEO who not only started a second company but used the VC's from his first company to start the second. His first was in a similar state (making money, but not out of the woods). didn't end well for either startup A or B. Focus is critical, unless you are Jack Dorsey I guess.
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Re:Ask HN: I want to start a new company, but I'm CEO at a f... by nl on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:06AM (#17013281)
> unless you are Jack Dorsey I guess

Well Twitter can't ship product, and many people within Twitter blame @jack. See for eg that article about the woman who setup their original abuse proceedures. Plenty of quotes in that which show how he stops anything getting fixed.

Maybe Musk might be a better example.

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Re:Ask HN: I want to start a new company, but I'm CEO at a f... by matte_black on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:44AM (#17013639)
Musk is not a good example. Tesla is in flames and there is worry it could affect SpaceX which is the more important company. The Boring Company also seems like a pivotal waste.
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Re:Ask HN: I want to start a new company, but I'm CEO at a f... by nl on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:52AM (#17018905)
I think Tesla is a big, risky bet. But he has delivered a lot more than Dorsey has.

Musk took over Tesla in 2008, which was two years later than Twitter was founded.

In that time Twitter has:

  Stopped crashing all the time

  Increased the Tweet size from 140 characters to 280 characters.
I'm no Musk apostle, but it seems to me he's done a bit more than that.
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Re:Ask HN: I want to start a new company, but I'm CEO at a f... by whb07 on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:45PM (#17018176)
What flames? You cookin'? Last I read tesla is up for the quarter and the shorts are being squeezed.
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Re:Ask HN: I want to start a new company, but I'm CEO at a f... by vorticalbox on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:34PM (#17014108)
The Boring Company went from digging tunnels for under ground roads for lorries to flame throwers.
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