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A recurring theme in so many startups I've seen inside is how the CEO in particular is extremely aloof with regards to presence. Sometimes that translates to aloofness for staff, but what more often happens is that when the CEO _does_ come in they expect other people to be there. So long as the alignment is good they don't care, but when it's not aligned, they just assume nobody is ever around and get real pissy abou…
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Share an office with a completely different type of company, for fun?
You could have shared employees. It reminds me of many strange hybrid company ideas I use to ponder. A lauromat can have big machines that produce steam and hot water. You can power an indoor troppical garden with a swinming pool and an interesting lunchroom. Desk work can be done laying in the grass etc etc Thats the general formula. The office can be a showroom for a vintage motorcycle shop.
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> Oh, and for the latter you're getting paid a few hundred an hour at best. Just putting that out there. Some may receive compensation of this nature, many more may not. You are making wild assumptions. Just putting that out there.
You think people are being paid more than this?
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You could have shared employees. It reminds me of many strange hybrid company ideas I use to ponder. A lauromat can have big machines that produce steam and hot water. You can power an indoor troppical garden with a swinming pool and an interesting lunchroom. Desk work can be done laying in the grass etc etc Thats the general formula. The office can be a showroom for a vintage motorcycle shop.
I had the idea for a bookstore/pizza place/laundromat/bar years ago.
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Ethically they’d return all profits to all employees regardless of ownership instead of leaching off the value of their labor
That isn't ethical, that is a magical fairy realm where everyone else has 0% profit margins and you get 100% of the profit.
A recurring theme in so many startups I've seen inside is how the CEO in particular is extremely aloof with regards to presence. Sometimes that translates to aloofness for staff, but what more often happens is that when the CEO _does_ come in they expect other people to be there. So long as the alignment is good they don't care, but when it's not aligned, they just assume nobody is ever around and get real pissy abou…
this word fits in there perfectly