This article is one of my all-time favourite pieces of writing about engineering management and startup founding, despite supposedly not being about that at all.
Think about what it takes to be a showrunner of a TV show. You spend years pitching an idea. It gets picked up... and suddenly you're in charge of a 100+ person startup, with a fixed budget, an immovable deadline and extremely activist investors.
And you're still expected to write the first and last episode of the season!
Think about what it takes to be a showrunner of a TV show. You spend years pitching an idea. It gets picked up... and suddenly you're in charge of a 100+ person startup, with a fixed budget, an immovable deadline and extremely activist investors.
And you're still expected to write the first and last episode of the season!