We get emotionally attached to our ideas because they're a projection of our value – or so we may think. When someone questions those ideas, especially in a professional setting, it can trigger irrational responses that vary depending on your position of authority and leverage. As a company founder, you have

Most software projects fail because they're too large and teams can't communicate effectively. I wish there were a more complex explanation, one full of crazy metaphors, but there isn't. Large projects are hard to manage because complexity doesn't grow linearly, but exponentially.

The next generation of companies will be built on top of bootstrapping, not lavish vanity rounds I started writing this post with wild metaphors about the public markets, sprinkling in some anecdotes about the Coinbase IPO, trucks filled with Teslas in the 101, and general imagery depicting plentifulness and obscenity.