Just in the experience of transitioning from my own ventures to getting a boss. And to be honest, its really terrible one. Half of the time your new boss does not now what he's doing and you have to explain it to him like a seven year old child to get him to do the right thing. In the other half, he's just plain stupid and you're not able to convince him anyway -> you have to go with inferior options. but there are also some positives: 1. Financial stability: I did run two high tech startups in last 5 years, made them to 2-3M $ yearly revenue, but most of the time I was living out on minimum wage to support their growth and hire new people. Now? As an employee I can enjoy no money = no fun attitude and make a stable income. 2: Time to think and reinvent: I did choose my new jobs (I do 3 at the same time, an advantage to being used to my own startup and higher working output, translated into normal jobs I'm kinda left unoccupied if not working on multiple jobs) to actually support my direction for a new startup. And I'm able to rethink some principles I build those last two on, why one failed/got f****d on the other one by bad selection of VC and with whom and where I would like to build a new one.
Just in the experience of transitioning from my own ventures to getting a boss. And to be honest, its really terrible one. Half of the time your new boss does not now what he's doing and you have to explain it to him like a seven year old child to get him to do the right thing. In the other half, he's just plain stupid and you're not able to convince him anyway -> you have to go with inferior options. but there are also some positives: 1. Financial stability: I did run two high tech startups in last 5 years, made them to 2-3M $ yearly revenue, but most of the time I was living out on minimum wage to support their growth and hire new people. Now? As an employee I can enjoy no money = no fun attitude and make a stable income. 2: Time to think and reinvent: I did choose my new jobs (I do 3 at the same time, an advantage to being used to my own startup and higher working output, translated into normal jobs I'm kinda left unoccupied if not working on multiple jobs) to actually support my direction for a new startup. And I'm able to rethink some principles I build those last two on, why one failed/got f****d on the other one by bad selection of VC and with whom and where I would like to build a new one.