Venture-capital infusions shrank Box founders’ stakes, ignited strife

Stories like this make me think it's almost not worth starting a company. Give 1,200 talented people an awesome place to work, be CEO of a company you truly enjoy leading, provide thousands of companies with a service that makes their lives easier, entertain 150k Twitter followers, make a bunch of your employees first-time millionaires, make millions for your investors, make yourself more money than you'll ever be able to spend... and people still consider you a failure.

Re: Venture-capital infusions shrank Box founders’ stakes, ignited strife

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Post by rhino369 » Fri, Apr 24, 2015, 10:42 PM UTC

curiouslurker wrote: post #4

vitalus wrote: post #3

Behind a paywall :(

google the headline to get a direct link!

Interesting, Binging the headline doesn't work, but googling does.

Re: Venture-capital infusions shrank Box founders’ stakes, ignited strife

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Post by downandout » Fri, Apr 24, 2015, 10:43 PM UTC

curiouslurker wrote: post #4

vitalus wrote: post #3

Behind a paywall :(

google the headline to get a direct link!

Even better, just type "site:" and paste the url into google/your chrome location bar after it [1]. The only result you'll receive is the link.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj....

Re: Venture-capital infusions shrank Box founders’ stakes, ignited strife

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Post by SilasX » Fri, Apr 24, 2015, 10:44 PM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #5

Stories like this make me think it's almost not worth starting a company. Give 1,200 talented people an awesome place to work, be CEO of a company you truly enjoy leading, provide thousands of companies with a service that makes their lives easier, entertain 150k Twitter followers, make a bunch of your employees first-time millionaires, make millions for your investors, make yourself more money than you'll ever be ab…

If that's failure, I don't want to win.

Re: Venture-capital infusions shrank Box founders’ stakes, ignited strife

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Post by equil » Fri, Apr 24, 2015, 10:44 PM UTC

mirror that bypasses the paywall https://archive.is/WKcLi

Re: Venture-capital infusions shrank Box founders’ stakes, ignited strife

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Post by gkoberger » Fri, Apr 24, 2015, 10:45 PM UTC

SilasX wrote: post #8

gkoberger wrote: post #5

Stories like this make me think it's almost not worth starting a company. Give 1,200 talented people an awesome place to work, be CEO of a company you truly enjoy leading, provide thousands of companies with a service that makes their lives easier, entertain 150k Twitter followers, make a bunch of your employees first-time millionaires, make millions for your investors, make yourself more money than you'll ever be ab…

If that's failure, I don't want to win.

For the record, my point was that Aaron is anything but a failure, and all the press and people saying/implying this upset me.