I was considering writing something about this but wasn't sure if there was an audience. Startups are a gung-ho never-say-die world where quitting is very much frowned upon but the reality can be tough. You can face a lot of forgivable difficulties (I once had to entirely rewrite our backend over the course of a weekend because the CTO had written it in a language 2/3rds of the tech team didn't use, we repeatedly delayed MVP launch for reasons that wouldn't have stopped feedback).
You can get over all of these, work around them and try and make sure the same mistake doesn't happen twice, but the breaking point is really when you stop trusting your co-founders. At that point there really is no other choice. Since leaving and getting distance, lamenting with others, not having followup matters resolved professionally etc I've seen that it was the best decision I could have made.
You can get over all of these, work around them and try and make sure the same mistake doesn't happen twice, but the breaking point is really when you stop trusting your co-founders. At that point there really is no other choice. Since leaving and getting distance, lamenting with others, not having followup matters resolved professionally etc I've seen that it was the best decision I could have made.