Justin and Sebastián left the company with the transition to investment
Obviously a ton of context is missing but if you are planning to stake the future of your company on a product that had until now been developed by these two gentlemen why weren't they going to be part of that future?
One thing I have grown an appreciation for over the years is the power of very small teams, i.e groups of less than ~4 or so. When you have a very small number of very capable people you can paper over a lot of deficiencies.
Overall though a very realistic view into what it's like trying to scale up a startup. If it's any consolation most of them blow up just like this, don't feel bad if this is a pattern you recognise from your past - it's just how it is. The game is hard and failure is expected, scale ups are by far the most vulnerable time in a companies history and yet you need multiple of them to "make it" and each one is completely different from the last.
I am a fan of small, committed, and accountable teams. Unfortunately, sometimes the management layer is stifling them. I recently worked on a team of four devs where we had... 9 (nine!) managers in every meeting. None of them were able to help us get specs, architecture reviews/approvals, or new environments. For nine months.
> When you have a very small number of very capable people you can paper over a lot of deficiencies.
That surprises me. I would assume that the fewer people you have, the less talent you have to cover all needed skills. But maybe you mean something else with "deficiencies"?
Justin and Sebastián left the company with the transition to investment
Obviously a ton of context is missing but if you are planning to stake the future of your company on a product that had until now been developed by these two gentlemen why weren't they going to be part of that future?
One thing I have grown an appreciation for over the years is the power of very small teams, i.e groups of less than ~4 or so. When you have a very small number of very capable people you can paper over a lot of deficiencies.
Overall though a very realistic view into what it's like trying to scale up a startup. If it's any consolation most of them blow up just like this, don't feel bad if this is a pattern you recognise from your past - it's just how it is. The game is hard and failure is expected, scale ups are by far the most vulnerable time in a companies history and yet you need multiple of them to "make it" and each one is completely different from the last.