So, companies are fluid entities, right? As employees spend a lot of time (decade++) in senior leadership in a company, they help the shape the present of the company. 
 They might not have founded the company back in the day, but they did shape the current state as it stands today. 
 Elevation to co-founder is just an acknowledgement of that.

Company might be fluid but language is not that fluid😄

Software Engineer

Business Analyst

Working at a super early stage startup takes a disproportionate amount of risk.  
 Many offer good equity terms but less than market salaries at that stage.  
 The elevated designation was perhaps an acknowledgement of the same along with the impact the person had over a decade.

Program Manager

Elevated to cofounder means? For a cofounder, you have to be a "cofounder", right. How can someone be elevated to cofounder after working as an employee in an org?

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Elevated to co-founder means? For a co-founder, you have to be a "co-founder", right. How can someone be elevated to co-founder after working as an employee in an org?

Can an employee be promoted to co-founder?

Frontend Engineer

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I'm seeing so many posts where startup employees are cribbing about things like layoffs, work culture etc etc. Doesn't seem like they have perspective on everything it takes to build a startup. I've built a failed startup myself and have immense respect for founders who are grinding it out there in such difficult recessionary circumstances. 

And then you have so many of the engineers and PMs cribbing about basics without talking about important things like learning growth, building for the future etc. Why such myopia? I work at a big tech and envy the speed at which startups move, the big responsibility everyone gets to handle, the fast career growth. All these things are being cribbed about. They crib about founders wanting more. Their job is to ensure success, not to give lifetime jobs to entitled people. They have more headaches you can imagine. In my small startup I had a million headaches. I can only imagine how hard it must be to run larger ships. Is everyone joining a startup these days looking for a get rich quick scheme?

Why are startup folks so entitled?

If you can’t run a business that lets people have a normal life then you’re the one who thinks they’re entitled to employees. 
 Businesses must take risk, employees don’t. Stop your whining that people won’t support shitty business plans

Growth Manager

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Co Founder

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If you are opening another mom n pop store, you are CEO of the company 

Founders are one whose product is a new addition to the market, they FOUND something NEW

Every other person, registering a company calls themselves a Founder. Bro you run Google ads, there are lakhs who do the same.

Founder vs CEO

Consultant

Are the Lead - Founder's Office/Chief of Strategy roles worth it for someone with 9y experience in Business Operations? What can be suitable exit options here?

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Sales Leader

I completed education from tier 1 colleges (MBA and Engineering both from coveted IIM and IIT). After MBA, I joined Wall Street bank and life was really good. Was enjoying the perks of a MNC although the work was also excruciating but was an overall good experience.

Left it for a startup (fast growth kida in me led this decision). Worked in the startup across multiple roles, learned a lot of new things. Tried staying away from office politics and earned a good name in the circle. But growth (read pay) was not that enticing and was not growing hence decided to leave. Was naive enough to quote this reason to business head and HR as well. Obviously it didn't go well with anyone.

Joined startup2, changed cities and joined it. The role was similar, although my manager was an epitome of a toxic manager. Was doing good but he always was able to find some or the other mistake in my work. If he would not find any mistake then he would suggest some tangential hypothesis and then reprimand me for not thinking about it. Was so toxic that I didn't take leave when my wife was hospitalized and giving birth to our child.
Tried doing everything possible but couldn't save the job and got laid off in the 1st lay off wave.

Was shattered. Confidence was at rock bottom. Tried searching for roles. Luckily I got into startup3 who had remote work at that time. Although I joined the marketing team (which was not at all related to my previous work) thus creating a mess of my profile.
Worked hard but in a "restructuring" exercise got laid off again.

Within a year 2 lay offs with random work and no concrete direction in work. 
Now searching for roles but not able to find anything suitable as I was in non-core roles and in this difficult time everyone is looking for cheap resources with 1-3 yoe and not looking for 7+ yoe with generalist profile.

Contemplating starting from zero in Marketing or learning coding/Data science so that can start my career again with right basics.

I fucked up my career

@NaivePoint62 : pls visit careers sites of any company and share with me CV and job ids, I will see if I know anybody there who can refer you.

Senior Product Manager

I recently worked at a startup and it was terrible. 

To be honest, I still worked at one of the better ones but it just sucked. 

Some of the clear downsides I see 

- Survival mode leads to chaos. You can be treated anyway and asked to leave whenever  even though you left big opportunities to be here 
- Brand loss to find next job (Big problem)
- Trying to make you feel unworthy(Doesn't bother me but I have seen people lose self confidence)
- Loss of opportunity to build real skills like building sustainable teams for the long run

I think over all working at a startup especially early teams is a losing proposition. Do it only if -
 - you know the founders/team well 
- you know the industry and market well and it is a bet you personally believe in
- you are secure enough in life that if you go back to your job, you will easily get employed 


For middle class kids, startups are the worst bets one can take.

Working at startups is terrible

Product Designer

Hello everyone. We, a group of three friends, worked on a startup idea for hyperlocal e commerce. We worked on that idea for about a year, held several brainstorming sessions, met with various stakeholders, learned a lot about the startup system, and improved our idea based on feedback, but we dropped it after a market study and moved on. We never registered our startup but contacted startup incubators and received guidance several times; now, how can I share it on LinkedIn and in the resume experience section? Can I include a co-founder title or describe it as a project?

Resume guidance

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What is the ballpark compensation range for the role of the founder's/ceo's office in seed and series afunded startup?

Founders office role compensation

Hi All, what can help me join an early stage startup and grow up to the top close to the founders within a year? I want to be in the middle of the action 

Has anyone here done it before?

How do people climb up/become more important in startups as employees?

If they have the right culture then showing excellency in your role, helping out others in the team, having opinions on decisions taken (not just for the sake of it) should help you get closer to the decision makers. 
  
 Remember that at an early stage startup, everything revolves around the product, and you will be rewarded for aligning with that. 
  
 Speaking from experience, you will be involved in "the action" in a team of 30 people either way

Business Development Manager

As the title suggests, I often wonder what is the natural progression for people who join startups in Chief of Staff or even Founder's office roles? Do they move to a specialized vertical internally? Or do they move to other startups in CoS roles? Or they do their own venture (I like to believe this is still less likely). Have this thought because a lot of Tier 1 MBA, MBB consultant profiles have been moving to these roles and it really makes me wonder what path would the careers of these top talents take?

Future of Chief of Staff roles

How to get in the founder office role? Which skills do they look in candidate ?
How should I apply to such roles?

Founder office

Junior Analyst

Fast learning and fast paced growth aside, after 15 years of MNC experience  I joined a startup to get some ESOPs.. and hopefully a good buyback ..

I have worked in 2 startups now.Both of these were already  Unicorns when I joined .


While I love the culture and dynamic pace of a startup 
i feel my chances of getting a payout  are slim...

My personal learning is to get a good reward you have to be in top 10 employees for sure ... otherwise it's not worth it ..

There is no point joining a Unicorn in middle management...or second in command in any function...

Happy to hear your thoughts !

Share your ESOP buyback story..

Founder

What are the reviews on founders office roles, is it really impact creation or just program management? What is the salary range for series a startup founders office role

Founders office role overrated?

While the company is doing absolutely poorly and laying off people left right and centre, the two so-called founders are on vacation to the US chilling and hanging out with people.

It's a disgrace that the Indian startup ecosystem has founders like them who are busy expanding their social and financial status at the cost of employee wellbeing and mental health.

What a disappointment.

Double faced founders

𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱.

Investor

So I'm working on this freelance project for about an year and I've scaled it to 50k users and built almost everything from scratch wearing multiple hats i.e looking after product, infra and marketing and the founder initially asked me for a C level position but I denied because ik I have lot to learn and I'm not after titles atm. FF, now I'm planning to ask for an equity and be a full time at the company (as we discussed initially) but I denied that too because for that I had to leave my Full time job and I was not sure about that, at this point I'm pretty much confident that it's time to go all in. It also might be kinda stupid decision because I denied a 20 LPA job but if not now then when.

So help me how should I take things? So if I ask for an equity I wouldn't be allowed to draw salary or something? I have no clue about these things. It'd be real helpful if someone can shed some light.

PS: it's a pre seed startup but yeah not much money in bank.

Technical Co Founder

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I don’t have a friend or colleague who can be my cofounder for my Commerce startup idea. 

How do people find their co founder these days?

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