If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees

Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by brailsafe on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:17PM (#24206517)

I'd argue that people conflate "having an impact" with "creating a product" rather than "having an impact" with having visible prestige. I used to think the former, but not after having experience interacting with people who want to be middle managers of middle managers. Those people want power and mostly don't care about impacting anything outside revenue increases that can be easily tied back to their name.

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Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by acjohnson55 on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:49AM (#24233765)

I would suggest that you've had experiences with bad middle managers. I say this all the time, but I only began to appreciate middle management when I became a front-line manager. An effective middle manager makes a whole boat full of people feel secure and strategically focused. They figure out how to leverage the strengths of their front-line managers and senior-level ICs, and how to fill in gaps. They know how to manage upward towards the executive layer, to acquire resources and summarize a great deal of complexity.

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Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by filleduchaos on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:05PM (#24206758)

Apologies, but I don't quite see what this has to do with the point I was making.

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