Our CTO Gave Us an Unexpected Ultimatum — and It Was Every Tech CEO’s Worst Nightmare. Here’s How We Handled It.

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While vision is important to success, execution matters most. Startups can succumb to multiple points of failure — people, products, competition and legal challenges, to name a few. These issues can be interconnected, compounding the difficulty of overcoming them. Ours is a cautionary tale concerning key man risk.

After recently going public, we were building for our next leg of growth. As I waited in traffic driving back from a run, my thoughts wandered to the upcoming annual general meeting (AGM) set for May, the following year.

It had started to drizzle when Elena broke the silence: “KK, is your phone off?

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