The JangaFX Origin Story - CEO Vulnerability and Openness
I did a live stream last week and the most talked about part wasn't our product updates, it was how I told our story and expressed my own vulnerability. I took the liberty of cutting out some of the pauses and ensuring that it was just the pieces where I was talking from my own point of view without much fluff or filler. Give this a listen. Share it with your colleagues. It was very tough for me to be vulnerable and I told myself I'd do this stream for the past 7 months. I'm thankful I was finally able to get it all out there. Original full video with chat replay: • JangaFX Q4 2022 Update - LiquiGen - G...
00:00 - Intro
02:30 - Thanks Valve!
04:30 - Poorly Performing Software Sucks
05:30 - EmberGen's ideation
05:58 - Real-time Naysayers
06:50 - Working hard jobs
07:48 - Support was hard to come by
08:50 - JangaFX was born
09:20 - VectorayGen
11:15 - Thanks to those who have helped
12:11 - First tears of hardship
13:00 - I need to win
13:46 - You're not a competitor
16:15 - Funcom comes in clutch
17:20 - Contract / Crunch Period
18:45 - From missing my rent to quitting Funcom
19:25 - EmberGen Release
21:09 - 2020 was a fight
23:00 - Does business cause divorce?
24:00 - Our first million $$ in revenue
24:25 - Why minimum salary for the team is $80k
26:15 - I care so much about my team
27:40 - Selling out means I lost
30:05 - Now at 16 Employees
31:45 - Sage advice for achieving goals
34:30 - Where I got this from: • Motivation. Stop Self Defeating Language
39:00 - This is who I am
39:55 - Companies don't give a fuck
41:00 - What does the name JangaFX even mean?
42:30 - History repeats itself
44:05 - So that's who I am
48:35 - Agh, my boogers are coming out
51:00 - Outro