Pyra Labs
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Williams admits being conflict-averse and poor at relationship management at Pyra
“I would say, worse than that, I don't think I was good at relationships, which, even more fundamentally. I mean, management is a particular skill, but I wasn't good at relationships, i.e. How to deal with conflict, the most important thing, and I avoided confl…”
Blogger's server costs dropped from $50,000 to $5,000 after staff departed
“Once everybody left, my costs went from 50,000 a month to 5000 a month still to pay for the servers, and I just wanted to keep building it, so I kept building it.”
Pyra Labs staff entirely walked out after Williams paused salary guarantees
“And then I sat everybody down and said, we don't have any money to pay you past this next pay period. So you're welcome to come back. I think this is on Friday. You're welcome to come back. I'm going to keep working. If you come back and work, you know, we'll …”