Startup Follies, Part III

I was the Chief Technical Officer. We wrote software for others on a contract basis (or at least wanted to). We had an offshore site with relatively inexpensive and great programmers. We had a mixed model with technical expertise locally and offshore.

At a company meeting our CEO made a pronouncement: " We were now developing intellectual capital, not merely providing contract programming services." I think a change in the technical direction of the company should be something discussed with the CTO first, namely me. And such a significant business change should probably have been discussed with the VP of Marketing and Sales who had probably more business experience than all of us combined.

Our sales and marketing guy told me he was out of there right after the meeting ending. I should have left then too!