> With a fat bank account, I was pretty set to do whatever I wanted for a long time. ... But it didn’t take long to realize that my new life was a hell of a lot less exciting than running an independent company had been.
Sorry, but this is completely self-contradictory. With your fat bank account, you can start a new, independent company. If what he wants is:
> our way of thinking of a better approach to consumer tech, with less structure and more play, an exploratory mindset that, through trial-and-error, produces very tangible real-world value
Then nothing is stopping him from doing that again. In fact, he's in an incredibly privileged position.
Indeed, being acquired and then let go lets you focus your energies on new things, rather than being stuck maintaining old things you created in the past -- "maintaining" things being something that established companies might very well be more skilled at.
So, besides being needlessly inflammatory, this post doesn't even make sense inside of its own logic.
Sorry, but this is completely self-contradictory. With your fat bank account, you can start a new, independent company. If what he wants is:
> our way of thinking of a better approach to consumer tech, with less structure and more play, an exploratory mindset that, through trial-and-error, produces very tangible real-world value
Then nothing is stopping him from doing that again. In fact, he's in an incredibly privileged position.
Indeed, being acquired and then let go lets you focus your energies on new things, rather than being stuck maintaining old things you created in the past -- "maintaining" things being something that established companies might very well be more skilled at.
So, besides being needlessly inflammatory, this post doesn't even make sense inside of its own logic.