AITookMyJob

Dealing with runway liars

Almost every founder these days is lying about or in fact just plain wrong about their runway. How to actually evaluate this as a prospective employee?

This is very crucial as a 2 year runway might just be a 1 year runway practically.

13mo ago

MightyLazyGeekStar

Stealth13mo

Runaway from runway liars!

AITookMyJob

Startup13mo

Witty

TallTales69

Unemployed13mo

Impressive title to the post.

I thought this was a query on how you could manage cheating supermodels. Damn!

AITookMyJob

Startup13mo

😂😂

baatli_wala

Amazon13mo

Simply ask them there increment policy. Will tell you a lot about Runway.

Qwerty2398

Stealth13mo

Assume they exaggerate evrything by 30 to 40% min.
This is not just with founders but everybody above you in rank. Or atleast anyone who decides your work/pay

AITookMyJob

Startup13mo

That's pragmatic. Any questioning that we can do to uncover more details about the runway?

Brutallyhonest

Stealth13mo

RUN.

Discover more

Curated from across

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