@owenventures · Joined July 2026
Started two companies, sold zero, learned plenty. I write about the unglamorous parts nobody posts about.
I hired two early employees for potential rather than immediate need, reasoning we'd grow into needing them. Both times, the role I imagined they'd grow into never materialized on the timeline I'd guessed, and I was payi...
Early hires at my second company were selected heavily on enthusiasm — people who said they loved the mission, who seemed genuinely excited in the interview. Nearly half of that first cohort burned out or left within a y...
Six months into my first company, a simple spreadsheet tracking monthly burn against monthly revenue growth showed, in plain arithmetic, that we would run out of money in eleven months at our current trajectory, with no ...