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24-08-28:
My cofounder is trying to pitch investors and told me to review a 3 page pitch document. Out of all of it, he only describes the product in a single vague sentence. Rofl, gl.
24-08-27:
My cofounder is a CEO that rules by fear. Every time I'm in a meeting, he's grilling our employee about what hes being doing. He's abjectly terrified now. Every time he talks to me, its either passive aggressive 'oh you could do this in a day why should I try' or hes just being hard on himself. This is the second person, out of 2 people that we've brought on board, that hes completely demoralized to the point where they stop working completely. My cofounder even had the audacity to tell me a story where he went on a pod cast and when the question of 'the hardest thing of doing a startup' he said that 'some people are doers and some aren't and you can't tell the difference'. Come on dude, this guy just needs a tiny amount of reassurance and he would be fine. Publicly shaming him is a fucked up thing to do to a person. Also I'm interviewing with other places, I have yet to see a single percent of equity after 4 years of work so I'd be leaving that all behind but honestly fuck it. I should have quit outright years ago and I'm stupid for sticking it out as long as I have. The last worst part of my cofounder is that he thinks I need help figuring out how to 'parallelize' my work, and he thinks people are just extensions of himself and he gives work as such. I've never seen anywhere where that actually works but hes so convinced that if I don't do that then I'm not being a proper CTO.
I'm not going to bat enough for our employee. If my cofounder does this shit, I need to stop it so it doesn't destroy my engineering culture. I've been giving him the authority to do it and I shouldn't be.
24-08-21:
Ah I see why my cofounder is being so hard on me. He's ramping up to blame me for a feature that I 'didn't deliver' to our customer that was in the July 24th release that he didn't want to tell them because he didn't think it was 'tested enough'. Sorry bud.
He's also being mean to our employee by saying shit like 'Why wasn't this discovered sooner' for a bug that was found in a non-critical feature. I had to step in with process mumbojumbo so its not a fucking blame game shit. It's terrible.
24-08-20:
I missed a major deadline and our only customer got angry. Worked 18 hours yesterday to round out the issues, which are still unresolved. I was too tired today to do an interview with DataDog about a position they opened about a technology /I created/ when at my last employer. My cofounder then did this thing where he's like 'we're not getting along' and I'm like yeah our eng org doesn't pass the vibe check. He then got confused about what vibes were and I had to explain that vibes were real. THEN at the end of the day he asked me to deliver this thing I hacked together last sunday so he could reach out to their CEO and demo the compatibility with our product. Like damn, I should have went on that interview. It's when I start being productive again is when they know they can extract a lot of work out of me. I work with terrible people.