Late to the game,, $1 short. Discounted the importance of strategy. alignment. transparency. communication. visibility and upheld all that would routinely be called disastrous for a startup - texting behind scenes, backbiting, belittling, nepotism, ego, dismissiveness, and lying for starters. The good people have left the building. You are torn apart every day. And then you need to outrun the dysfunction. Literally. Designed in a pool house and should have been on a different planet. They will never stop until all of your confidence is gone. There is no truth. Was there someone in your job before. Yes. Was this vision tried and failed? Yes. Do you matter? No. Forget the boogymen - when you dream it should be of this company ripping out your confidence and shredding it the 1980 battery operated shredder - in the unplugged, no phone office.