Founders

Founder friend exited with a decent aquihire in a great company.

At first: massive relief, happy for the big and stable paycheck

2 months in: Getting really frustrated. Cannot build anything. Tech debt. Politics. Itching to found again.

Founding is hard. It's really hard. It feels like shit, the money is bad.

But the high agency that comes with this is a blessing, and I'm feeling grateful for the ability to build Mocha the way I want.

I now have multiple friends who are multi-millionaires after they sold their startup but who lost all their freedom

They're stuck in meetings all day, have to fly around to offices to do stuff, work longer hours than they ever did

This stuff makes no sense to me at all

They're https://t.co/xtA31Q2Ec8

@levelsio

Building https://getmocha.com // creator of the https://blockchainsmokers.xyz

/salty /fufu
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https://x.com/levelsio/status/1920125773840879635

Srcbook became Mocha https://x.com/nichochar/status/1906748998322655529?s=46

dude what happened with srcbook! I went to your profile and didn’t see on the video and was like wtf is he not the person behind it?

fwiw, it's mostly just a 1-1.5 year lock in. easy for them to survive and figure next thing so can gtfo. all decent acquirers know this too. but founder in role almost always better than non-founder hire even if operating at 50% productivity

I went through this same exact journey, building your own venture is hard but very rewarding too 💯