Startup.com

Here is my thoughts about the video that we watched while in class.

One of the very interesting things of the video Startup.com was the whole idea of friendship. There were two people that were very close friends, however their friendship was stretched to the very limits. At first it seemed that everything was going good, however once there were some money issues with the company, their friendship changed.

I know that it is one of the things that happens in every relationship, but it seemed to me that it was more vicious. It seemed that once their relationship changed, it was the entire company that was affected.

Another big thing was that the two people involved Kaleil and Tom both parted ways, but they also started a new company after govworks.com. It seems like they must have worked out what each person was going to be doing and discuss all of the companies decisions.

Kaleil I think was the one that was really interested in running the company even without talking with Tom, who was the second CEO. To me I think that communication was very broken and it affected the entire company. If communication was made about all decisions I think it would have been better and govworks.com could be around today.

Also it seemed that no one was taking charge of why the company was failing. It seemed to me that Kaleil was trying to point the finger elsewhere which lead to the problem. This includes letting Tom go and forcing him out of the company.