My cofounder is planning to quit , we have a preseed termsheet in place

Recently while working for an Indian startup I had a terrible experience, not because the entire team was bad but just the one person, the team lead treated me like shit. Never left an opportunity to humiliate me publically, no appreciation, no feedback, no proactive help. Just pure toxicity. Is being a good person too much to ask from seniors? Fortunately for me, I never derived my self worth from him else I would've killed myself by now. I am now planning to switch companies, and I want to know how to find and gauge good people beforehand? What can I do to make sure or atleast increase the probability of me being with good people? Is this even possible? Anyone can share any anecdotes on their startup stints and their relationships with people there is also welcome.

I am planning to shut down my IT services company after 5 years of operations. The journey has been bitter-sweet but it is becoming unsustainable and putting me under a great amount of duress. I have been a trained ML engineer but since my startup have gone on to taking up mostly non-programming roles/ work. I have tried getting back to development role but have not been able to get back in the same stride as I used to. Lately, I’ve been picking up some consulting work as a Software Architect. Basis, that info, need some advice on how I can plan my professional journey ahead.

A friend is pretty upset about where they are working. They feel a bit cheated with the #edtech company not growing as the founders kept promising them. The company has reversed its initial growth and is now not sure of the next steps. They were largely into giving charters instead of degrees and their pandemic success has disappeared. They are wondering if they should cut loss and jump ship before the company shuts. Or should they sink with the team? The founders are pretty cool guys outside. With a good reputation. But they haven't been able to scale the company and promises have dried up. I wish I could reveal the name - but I don't want to affect anyone or point at anyone else. But my friend is really traumatised and has lost interest in work and is given new roles and responsibilities every week at '_t_a'. And everyone else is demotivated and upset with how the founders seem to cut their losses by doing secondaries but they can't do a thing! Even the investors don't seem to care much. My friend and a few others plan to take this up with the founders on Wednesday. And there is an internal revolt going on.

In my early 20s, broke my ass for a year trying to prove myself in a field I am new to. Outcome was outsized, I did + achieved exactly what I was hired for and more. Worked extra hours with no complaints only to get a 9% hike. Tried talking to the founder, he doesn't see value in what I've done so far but admits that I've bought in the numbers. And he wants me to take up more work on top of this but all my drive has been sucked away, very demotivated to do anything. Would appreciate any help to get out of this mindset.

Hi, I have almost 10 months of experience as software developer in 3 companies one internship, 2 full-time. First 2 was absolutely initial-stage startups, this one is a seed-funded startup. In my current company the culture and the manager is really nice. I work as a backend developer, node, MongoDB, express, genai, auth, etc. tech stack. But the work does not excite me at all, I was enjoying at my previous company a lot more. That was young team, so everyone was new to tech and trying to figure out things and was helpful and collaborative. Here everyone is in their 30s and 40s and I am 23, no one even cares of what I work and how difficulty I am facing in work/team. That's why I fear of losing my job every day and I am still on my probation. So I thought of applying in case I get laid off. I got an interview opportunity at company. I want to ask what should I answer if the interviewer asks me about the frequent switches. In first company I switched because the company is like 3 people and no funding was received so only 3 more months of money remaining( btw now only the founder left and he is still trying to raise money, my other colleague left too). So what should I give a reason for this potential switch? Current perks: 6LPA base. Nothing else.

I used to work at a product-based company, joined as a fresher worked for 2 years, it was a perfect job, in the sense that there was little to no work related stress, decent pay, and all the perks you get at a typical big product company as an SDE. I decided to move out of my comfort zone and joined a bootstrapped startup. It sounded stupid when I left but I just wanted to experiment with working in a high-paced environment. 3 months in and I am very frustrated there is no sense of urgency even in a highly competitive space, all 3 co-founders are busy fundraising and rarely talk to us except for standups(which are also skipped regularly) most other team members(a total of 11) work like govt employees, no hunger, passion or curiosity. I joined because I love the problem they are solving and I am genuinely passionate about the industry and problem space but I don't even see 10% of the same passion in any of my other teammates they come in at 10 and leave by 4. Sorry for the long rant but need genuine advice, will things change after the fundraise and as an employee how do I raise my issues with company culture with co-founders without sounding too bossy and pissing off my other teammates.

About me: 25M working in a super early stage startup for 1yr. The startup is only 2 yrs old with seed funding. 2 pivots, but none worked. The 3rd pivot is interesting and we still don't know if it'll work I want to understand the life of an Early employee, how do you manage to keep hope, or when to call it quits? Have vested esops. Also feel if I can get 1.5X cash salary if i switch

My friend has joined a new company in recent months and have now figured out that he’ll be mostly working in legacy technology, support customer ticket issues, and become the point of contact for a product which is again legacy. There is basically no incentive for him to continue or add on to his growth/learning. Since market is really bad, he is trying to hang around for at least a year although painful. What do u guys suggest should he do?

I am going through my notice at an early stage Start-up. The founder is extremely toxic and is trying to create issues despite me trying to work double hard. She is not even seeing my face and acting all weird - I don't know how to deal with this.

My friend an early age startup founder who was about to get married in 3 months Was told by his gf ( now fiancé) recently that she cheated on him twice - 2 years back and one year back {diff diff guy} She told that she had only kisses with other guy and it happened because she was vulnerable at that time While this happened she didn’t tell and once the marriage thing started happening - she confessed Both of their families know each other as they were about to get married Now this friend is asking if he should move on or give an another chance Any advice fella I’m his cofounder 😮‍💨