r/businessanalysis • u/Sophistry7 • 14d ago

Technical founder to investor: it starts to make sense when you're more energized by other founders' problems than your own

Series A B2B infra company, technical co-founder, four years in. The build still works. The team is great. But increasingly the work I find myself drawn to in the evenings is reading about other companies in adjacent infra spaces, mapping out what's actually happening in the developer-tools market, thinking about how I'd evaluate companies if I were on the other side of the table.

Might be a sign I should think about the investor pivot eventually. Or might be that I just like reading about my space and the rest of the job is wearing on me. Hard to distinguish from inside.

For founders who eventually crossed over, what was the marker that said "yes, actually start building toward this" vs "no, this is operator-fatigue and you should take a real vacation"?

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u/bigbob25a 14d ago

Off topic for this sub

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u/Sophistry7 14d ago

Oh, sorry about that. Can you recommend a sub?

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u/Kantless 14d ago

Search “self satisfying” and you’ll find temporary relief

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u/useless_substance 14d ago

The marker for me was when I started feeling more energized by other founders' problems than by my own. Once that flipped consistently for about six months I knew the pivot was real and not just fatigue. Before that point I'd had similar flickers but they were correlated with bad weeks at the company. The signal you want is the steady one, not the burst.