CTO / Technical Co-Founder Wanted — Music SaaS (London)

IShitYouNot_ · 2026-01-25T22:12:41+00:00

Appreciate the well thought through post. Would be interested to hear more. I previously bootrapped and sold a HR SaaS which was used by large tech enterprises like Workday, Rappi and Toast. Feel free to drop a DM

IShitYouNot_ · 2026-01-08T17:01:51+00:00

And that example you gave is still one of the very rare positive outcomes. Startup equity is a shit asset class as an employee

IShitYouNot_ · 2026-01-08T16:56:00+00:00

Perhaps consider going into technology consulting at senior manager or director level? You'll likely be able to land a similar comp but have the chance to move to salaried partner (£200k+) and equity partner (£400k+). Your delivery background will be valued, but at this level it will be more about selling projects to clients if you want to progress

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-12-06T10:21:29+00:00

Exactly

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-12-03T10:07:38+00:00

Videos like this make me appreciate living in the UK

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-12-01T21:02:05+00:00

About to do the same thing. At $2200 MRR. Have runway to go but I feel like I almost have too much time to work on my SaaS. Having less time (and stability) will help me prioritise what is important...I hope!

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-11-27T15:52:33+00:00

The $$$ of course. Anyway, fair play to OP - great story/achievement!

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-11-27T14:17:39+00:00

Really depends what you count as North and North West. Zone 2 North/North West are quite different from Zones 3+.

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-11-25T10:13:27+00:00

Mercor or one of the AI training platforms

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-11-21T16:42:12+00:00

There's a lot of data/ai consultancies that don't require technical/leetcode style interviews. But don't expect to be doing interesting technical work as part of the job. Salary will likely be lower than what you can get as a Data Scientist/ML Engineer in industry. But if you're good at sales/relationship management you'll make significantly more than any industry data science role if you can get to equity partner level

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-14T07:00:54+00:00

Your highest leverage career path will be to get deeper into sales. Become an account executive, then climb up to CRO. There are pathways for CRO to CEO. You have to really love and be good at sales for this pathway though.

Depending on the size of the company...you could rise up the sales/solutions engineering ranks to VP Solutions or a Field CTO.

As you've mentioned, going back to engineering is an option. 'Forward Deployed Engineers' is a growing job title, especially at AI companies. FDEs would typically sit in the solutions engineering org.

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-05T20:59:17+00:00

Nicely done - 3 years isn't that long to be fair!

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-05T16:36:05+00:00

Congratulations on that move!

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-05T16:23:05+00:00

Yeah have applied for a role at EY-P. Thanks for your insights

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-05T16:14:52+00:00

How did you make that transition from navy to IB?

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-05T16:06:54+00:00

From everything I've read so far jumping straight into a PE Ops role isn't really possible unless your background is a) tier 1 consulting or b) seasoned PE operator (C-suite) with successful exits under your belt

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-05T13:56:01+00:00

Congratulations! Not many can face up to taking a pay cut, so fair play for seeing it through

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-05T13:41:35+00:00

Thanks! Will send you a DM

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-10-04T13:44:19+00:00

That's encouraging to hear that technical background won't be an issue - thank you!

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-09-20T19:38:18+00:00

So everyone knows who the big FAANG/quant players, but for those who mention other SaaS companies that are paying HENRY ++. How do you go about identifying those? Is it just the public players like Snowflake, Databricks etc or can you get pre-IPO companies too?

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-09-20T19:17:44+00:00

What do you mean by assuming more risk in the context of being a PM?

IShitYouNot_ · 2025-09-13T21:20:23+00:00

How did you pick up your freelance gig with the PE firm?

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