{"id":1559,"date":"2020-07-12T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2020-07-12T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:27:57","slug":"founder-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/12\/founder-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founders are core to the company they create. They are supposed to smart, great in problem-solving, and at some level should be able to visualize the future. I recently had some one talk to me about how much he admires other founders and why founders are so great. While I was happy to take the credits, I wish I could tell him how stupid, dumb, and idiotic we were during the early days of our company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best story I could remember was this one about Jezz Bezos on how stupid he was during his early days. It is very humbling to hear this kind of story from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 960 \/ 720;\" width=\"960\" controls src=\"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jeff-Bezos-knee.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I am no way comparable with Jezz Bezos, I remember so many of my early stupidest moments. To my defense, this was very very early and all I knew about building a company is coding a website using the LAMP stack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a conversation I had with one of my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/manumanjunath\/\" target=\"_blank\">friends<\/a> at that time. I don&#8217;t think he will remember this now, but I still remember it as if this happened yesterday. This is how the conversation went on when we all met for lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Manu: Congrats on launching the website. Hope your company grows much bigger and goes public.<br>Hari: Thanks, Manu. Btw, we are already public. The website is live. You can check it at www.interviewstreet.com<br>Manu: Err, I know. But that&#8217;s not what I meant. That&#8217;s ok. Congrats anyway<br>Hari: Sure, Thanks.<br>Alagu: Hari, taking the company public means going IPO.<br>Hari: Ohhhhhhh! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish I could go back in time and undo this conversation. The only consoling fact is that these are folks who never judge me on how stupid I was. They were constantly eager to teach me whatever I didn&#8217;t know and 10 years later, I&#8217;m still learning. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founders are core to the company they create. They are supposed to smart, great in problem-solving, and at some level should be able to visualize the future. I recently had some one talk to me about how much he admires other founders and why founders are so great. While I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-startuplife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}