I'm sorry to hear that the company burned all the money. Is there any chance of still being successful? How is the traction? Can you see a path forward?

I had a similar story. I was hired as the first engineer after a mobile agency had built native (iOS/Android) mobile apps.

I built a React web app to support scaling, rewrote the mobile app in React Native to ship faster, and built a ton of features.

We went from 0 revenue to 100k+ ARR, and I got 5% of the company on paper. Then, I hired a small team, and the company scaled to 10M ARR.

I left the company because I had a disagreement with the founder. Today, it is probably doing 20M in ARR, and my 5% (which I still have on paper) has never turned a dollar for me.

Thanks for sharing your story.

Right now, it's totally dependent on how the founder takes the call. I am trying my bit, but as I'm way away from marketing right now, I have no clue.

Elon Musk loves that

Your insight is right on point.

We're all hooked on the dopamine these notifications trigger. Smartphones have become a constant distraction. From ourselves. From reality. We can't stay still for 15 seconds anymore. Healthy boredom barely exists.

There's an interesting phenomenon you may have noticed: you're hanging out with friends. Talking. Laughing. The moment one person checks their phone, everyone else follows.

I hope that, 100 years from now, society looks back at social media the same way we now look at how cigars were consumed 50 years ago.

> you're hanging out with friends. Talking. Laughing. The moment one person checks their phone, everyone else follows.

In my social circle, anyway, this doesn't happen. It's considered incredibly rude to check your phone while socializing in person unless there's an actual emergency going on, and people will tell you so.

If you want to check your phone, the acceptable way is to go off somewhere away from everyone to do so.