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Mission: Impossible
A startup hires a senior product leader. Six to twelve months later, that person is gone. The internal narrative is some version of "it didn't work out". Maybe they weren’t experienced enough, maybe they weren't a culture fit, maybe they just couldn't hack it at this stage. The company goes back to market, finds someone new, and the cycle repeats. Everyone treats each failure as an isolated hiring mistake rather than a symptom of something structural.
I want to talk about what's actually happening here, because I don't think most companies are honest with themselves about it. The problem usually isn't the person. The problem is that the company has created conditions where no one could succeed, and then blames the individual when they don't.
Even in this world, more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way.