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Hey, drop me a line: balajis at a16z dot com. We try to help entrepreneurs who have an experience like you've had get back on their feet. No promises, but often
by balajis 12y ago
Hey, drop me a line: balajis at a16z dot com. We try to help entrepreneurs who have an experience like you've had get back on their feet. No promises, but often we can find you a great job at one of our portfolio companies.
- verysadpanda 12y agoassuming this applies to developers and doesn't work for marketing/product manager types
- _pius 12y agoI wouldn't assume that, you should reach out to him.
- rdl 12y agoFounder -> Product Manager is probably the only way I've seen which produces good PMs for startups. Startup PM is totally different from PM in a big organization with great process and resources. The company I now work for (CloudFlare) seems to have 100% of the PMs come from startups (including me), either from acquisitions or direct hire. It works really well. We're also looking for a head of marketing. Email me (rdl@cloudflare.com) if you're interested, although I'd also strongly recommend balajis.
- zacharycohn 12y agoDo any VC's provide subsidized (and heavily encouraged) psychologist/therapists to their portfolio companies? Obviously wouldn't help in this situation, but I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Lots of pressure on founders, and often no one they can really open up and talk to truthfully.
- lowglow 12y agoI think it's a great idea and I talked about this a bit here: https://www.techendo.com/posts/5-things-i-would-do-right-now-to-make-ycombinator-great-again https://www.techendo.com/posts/5-things-i-would-do-right-now...
- joshu 12y agoI feel like one of the most important things I do as an angel investor is founder therapy to the point that I have thought about taking a class.