tech founders
also referred to as: tech founder
5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2018 by Paul English · across every show →
Everything said about tech founders, oldest first
Jun 8, 2018
Arrogant founders fail by hiring subservient employees who avoid challenging them
“Well, I think either the tech founder lacks humility, and they're arrogant, and they only hire people that would be subservient to them, so they don't hire people that are daring enough, and they're going to challenge them and push them.”
May 11, 2021
Ryan Smith: Tying happiness to company performance makes founders miserable
“If your happiness is tied up in your business, you're never going to be happy because it's nothing but problems, whether it's customer problems, whether it's Employee problems, whether it's just frustration, like, you've got to find happiness outside, and it's…”
Mar 9, 2022
Grosser: Tech founders wrongly view salespeople as purely coin-operated
“You know, tech founders have like a real apprehension about sales. There seems to be this point of view that we're all coin operated. We're all effectively like car sales people. Right. And that's just really not actually true.”
Mar 5, 2025
May 18, 2026 negative
Josh Browder: Founders who run out of cash should manage burn better
“I think this is controversial. I think founders who burn all the money, I think that's not cool. I think it's kind of lame because why did they run out of money? Why didn't they just cut the bun? And obviously some founders fail because of some like black swan…”