Another great post from Sachin Agarwal. I strongly agree with this and feel like it’s one of the big mistakes I made with TenthRow. I put too much distance between myself and the product (our website), which is the thing I enjoyed the most about TenthRow. I was too busy filming and editing videos and dealing with bands and labels, which was important stuff to be doing, but it left very little time for me to work on the product itself. I should have gotten another 1-2 people involved to handle or help me handle the video production, sales, and legal stuff.
Now that I’m close to the product again (designing, writing HTML & CSS, and product managing), I’m much happier than I used to be. And I think the product is benefitting from it as well. Not that I didn’t have great people working on it before, but you can’t help losing some things in translation.