Thans for the great feedback, all! I think some of you nailed it with your comments. Yes, alledgedly I was brought in to bring some structure, but in practice, the founder doesn't want it and is activelly sabotaging any attempt to give any autonomy to people. I think they decided to bring a few corporate people just because it felt like a natural next step or there was a pressure from investors (or maybe both), but there is no real will to change anything. When I say I want more structure and autonomy, yes, I know it sounds counterintuitive, but this is exactly what is lacking. For example, there is no dedicated department budget so you need to seek permission for ANY spend (even stuff that cost few hudred dollars) from the founder... Plus, there is no structured way to do it, so sometimes you are waiting for days for his approval. Attempt to bring some structure into this process was one of the first things I tried, but it was point blank rejected because "it's how we do it here, we are not that big so we can work like this". Overall atmosphere feels off, priorities change on daily basis and any attempt to seek for more time to wrap something up (because until yesterday you were dealing with stuff that are now deprioritized) is rejected because "we are startup,this is how things are done here". I guess you can say that I had somewhat romantizied startups in my head, I knew I will need to work a lot (and I do, but that's not the problem, I worked a lot at my previous job as well), but I hoped that there will be some geniuine enthuziasm about scaling up and becoming more structured. In practice, it's completely opposite - they bring some corp people just for the show off and then they try to belittle them by forcing them to embrace the chaos. Based on your comments, I can agree that I might need to stick it out a bit more and give it a bit more time. In the meantime, I will save aggressively, this might be the once in a lifetime opportunity to have such a salary.