Pros
Teaches you what bad leadership is, so you can spot it in the future or you can avoid making the same mistake You can get away creating no value for the company if you’re good at buddying up with the right people. Having a white person accent helps a lot. Shows you why people still think most startups and cash burning trash cans and more accountability is still needed in this field. Storehub’s a little like “Toast” ( an American based startup) but a nobody in the startup world and haven’t achieved anything significant yet. *the only one true pro is that there’s a circle of extremely competent middle managers and team leads. They are the ones holding the fort, making sure people are okay. The exec level people are great.
Kontras
Weak product, move 10x slower than competitors even though they have insane amount of resources. Just ask them How many engineers they have in China. Sales managers that don’t do sales themselves. They spend more time creating useless content when they can’t even practice what they preach. Ask the sales manager when was the last time they closed a deal and you’d be surprised to find out the real number. YouTube clips of witty sales gurus are where they find their cutting edge sales techniques from. If there’s a perfect example of why startups fail, just look Here. The only thing that Storehub is good at is raising money and spending 90% of their funds on marketing. If they spent half of that money on rewarding their team (perhaps a bonus) instead of wasting it on crap of an empty office they might still have a functioning team. Go on LinkedIn and see that all their previous upper management have left. You can imagine why people at the top leave, people who have options and know they don’t have to take the nonsense that the CEO throws their way. CEO an entrepreneur wannabe, basically spending millions of VC money to redesign a cash register where there are hundreds of competitors with the same offering with half the price running on a tenth of the operating costs. He has the patience of a toddler and the ego of a king. Very poor judgement in product decision and completely unscientific in approach. With the hundreds of thousands they spend on dashboards and software, you would think they have something to show for it. You’ll realise that the people who are still are either:- 1. Waiting for the right chance to leave 2. New and not sure how bad it is 3. Getting paid high salaries by the company and can’t leave cause they know the only skill they have is buddying up with the CEO And at this point if you’re not yet convinced this is a place where people first experience mental health decline, then keep going. You are nothing to them. You are nothing to them. You are nothing to them. You are as disposable as a used napkin. They don’t care. It’s as simple as that. They look at everyone as a number, ONLY as a number. Only as something to help them fulfil their failing dream of becoming a unicorn.
