CEO Holds Company and Mission Back - Anonymous employee Sama Employee Review

I'm very sorry you feel this way and had a bad experience working at Sama. Many startups experience churn in their early years, and when I started the organization at 25, I had no real management experience outside my first job out of college. I've definitely been rude, impatient, and frustrating to work with, as have many CEOs I know who are learning the ropes. It's been a learning curve for all of us, especially as we skew young. We've moved our current management team to a more streamlined structure with clear accountability under two managing directors. I think, based on our retention and weekly meetings with me, that this group believes in our vision, in me as a leader, and in our ability to scale. We've achieved major reductions in turnover on the management team and in key functions by recruiting qualified professionals to run our core teams -- in the last two years, we've brought on an extraordinary CFO and two Managing Directors with substantial experience in their respective fields.