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The Hardest Thing About Being a Second-Time Founder

Going again, and putting myself in the spotlight

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Mike Harty
Aug 31, 2025
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I still remember sitting in a boardroom during my first company, PowerLinks, when a big UK institutional investor leaned back and said:

“We’ve built the product now — can’t we lay off the engineering team?”

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