Fundraising on a vision turns out to be hard. Transforming a vision into a product people with buy is very challenging.

Join the “waitlist” for a product that doesn’t exist yet

Join the “waitlist” for a product that doesn’t exist yet

Welcome to the grind. Honestly your post comes of as blaming your employee when you need to be curious and look into why they don’t want to share the app.

If you are in charge then you better read the room because if your employees don’t want to tell their friends then maybe you have a blind spot.

Maybe they don’t believe in the app yet, don’t want to involve their families till it’s better, or maybe they feel like it isn’t ready. You should figure it out. It’s very important data that you can learn from.

Do you need a CTO or a founding engineer?

I’m in a similar position and I recently chose to leave. Working with a delusional CEO is salvageable. Working with a delusional CEO who is both strategically challenged and won’t allow the engineers to build a product is not.