Business is War...or is it?
Someone on the outskirts of RenewU, we will call them, Person A, now told me to my face that I am incapable of running a company because I am too nice and don't delegate tasks firmly enough. Because of this, Person A wants to sign on as our CEO because he is "effective at holding people accountable to him". He knows nothing about RenewU, technology, fitness, start-ups and is about 25 years my senior. He lacks vision and passion, integrity. I sat there and said "I am here 2000 miles away from my family because I had enough vision and balls to come out here and develop my software, code my website, and get fully involved in my business".
I know NUMEROUS CEO/Founders who are just as nice as I am, who have a great team behind them who are all the best in their respective areas. I am sitting here reading article after article about how Silicon Valley is all people my age, the companies are ran by young professionals and VC's like CEO's to be founders. That they would rather have expertise than experience and passion versus execution.
Person A also said that business is war and you have to never make friends and treat everything as such, war/business combo. See what's happening to Uber? Because I feel like they are taking this "war" ideal so far that people are beginning to get turned off by it. I am a genuinely nice person, I am not vindictive, and just because I'm not the "enforcer type" (thanks Mom for raising me this way) doesn't make me effective. There is more than 1 way to skin a cat & I believe that if this Person A genuinely wanted to help us, he could come up with a position within RenewU where he fits, like operations-or sign a FAST agreement and be a great adviser like so many other start-ups do (but he said he's done advising us and has nothing else to advise us on, all it comes down to now is execution).
At the end of the day, my start-up would just be a raisin in the sun without me...it wouldn't exist.