One Acre Fields
Journal · building · entry 04

What forty people taught me about closing a company properly.

I learned more from the closing than the growing.

Placeholder opening in your voice. Forty people, fully remote, and one decision nobody wanted to make. This is where the story of the closing goes, told plainly.

Placeholder. Short sentences. What was said, in what order, and who heard it first.

The order you tell people in

Placeholder. The part about doing it properly: the handovers, the references, the last payroll run on time. The things people remember years later.

You learn more from the closing than the growing.
Written at the tent, a cold clear night. Placeholder. — Janaka