The document summarizes the author's experience as an early stage CTO, noting that over 4 years the company grew from 3 back makers in one country with €8M in GMV to 160 back makers across 6 countries with 9 digits in GMV. It provides advice on anticipating but not over-anticipating, choosing co-founders you trust, focusing on projects that fulfill you both as an engineer and human being, and fighting planned obsolescence.
32. Hold onto “day 1” as long as possible.
Fight the idea that “day 2” has arrived.
“Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance.
Followed by excruciating, painful decline.
Followed by death.
And that is why it is always Day 1.”
33. Day 1 =
“Keep your feet in the
shit.”
(Managers, Heads of, VP, C-X)