I joined a business someone started, personally invested $200k, and forwent income for a year. This is after leaving a prestigious finance job after 5-6 years in the industry and quitting a senior role at a Fintech.
Company’s sales is flat, and it’s running out of money. If this doesn’t work out, I’m a guy who quit the previous start-up (not doing very well rn) after 1 year, blew money, and joined another one that’s also not doing well.
I feel like I’m not employable and that maybe my judgment is poor. Has anyone experienced or gone through this?
I’d happily employ someone who had the guts to do all of that, success or fail, that’s a mountain of experience to apply going forward.
Anyone who couldn’t see that is someone you probably don’t want to work for, so I don’t think unemployable is fair.
The more interesting story to me is what you’re doing in the meantime to fix sales in short order. Win or lose that’ll be incredibly valuable additional experience.