So I don’t normally do this kind of post but nobi asked me to check in once and again so here we are….
For those of you who haven’t been made aware, I am CEO of a new company. We’ve been building on to it, and recently we underwent a redesign and re-evaluation of everything. Everything got re-organized and we got rid of a lot of people. I have almost 30 employees working under me now and some of our positions we’ve now filled include:
CEO (this goes without saying but whatever)
CTO
CMO
CHRO
COO (I’m actually interviewing him right now but I know he’s gonna get it)
CFO
General Counsel
And more
Most people listed above are Administrators and/or in the Board of Directors. We’ve also got managers of marketing, social media management, development, content creation, so on and so forth.
I’m really excited to have a CHRO now (basically the head of HR managers) because interviewing is a PAIN. Anyway one of my management devs is currently telling me about a huge project that we could get which would get us a massive head hold on.
Even more importantly, this morning we scored a partnership! I met with another company with a similar niche as us. I said “well I’m either talking to a major competitor or a major friend.” They said that they didn’t like competing much and so we negotiated a deal: our devs and coders will work for them to build their software and complex systems they need. In exchange, even after the work is complete, we’ll get 15% of the other company’s monthly revenue and we’ll be advertised as a partner (and vice versa). And since we weren’t able to talk the company into up-front payment, I convinced the CEO to give us a lump sum when the work is done and then we’ll only take 10% for the first month.
Also we have a massive project that we might be able to land. MIGHT. There’s no guarantee but luckily I can be very good at persuasion, so we can very well get it. However it won’t be easy. It’s not some little random company this time. I’m talking about a company that I’m sure every single person here has heard of and knows. Like, a BIG company. Let me give you some figures: they were worth $14B in 2020, $12B in 2021, $17.5B in 2022, and somehow now $33.8B in 2023. Don’t ask me how they skyrocketed so much in a year; I honestly have no idea.
Imagine that: a company worth tens of BILLIONS of dollars might be using us. And like I said, it wouldn’t be some random little job. This could be $150,000+ depending on how many devs we use and how long it takes us.
Again nothing is official but as of right now things are looking to be in our favor. We’ll see how it goes.
Regardless, we gained a whole new team of marketers because I have a couple already, and we have a new source that we can outsource from that has like 25 or so experienced marketers. So that’d be good for client growth anyway.
I could go on and on and on. It’s difficult, that’s for sure. A lot of times I have like four different people all messaging me at the same time and wanting me for something. Getting my COO into place should help with that. I’m also developing and establishing a new system that we’re going to use to generate a little more capital for the time being.
So yeah there’s a lot going on (I’ve barely scratched the surface here in this post) and it’s usually incredibly frustrating. Something is always either taking too long, I get frustrated at an employee not following instructions, or something else. UPS and downs for sure.
