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It's been over a month now since the emergence of a patent owned by a large, litigation-prone competitor came to light, causing us to shut down. I'm now trying to figure out what to do, but I have no proper software or corporate experience outside my own company, so I'm not actually sure what is a realistic next step.

Here's my resume highlights:

- CEO of a 4-year bootstrapped wearable sensors company founded straight out of college.

- Shipped 3k+ units

- Built a machine learning pipeline to solve arbitrary inertial gesture classification problems, deployed working model to hardware prototype

- more info, cv, etc: matoles.com

- B.S. Materials Science/Engineering

- Location: Seattle

- Age: 26

In the long run, I would like to start another ML company. Therefore my short term (2-4 year) objectives are:

- Work in the data science / ML field

- Make a lot of money

- No regard for work/life balance

Here are my questions for the hivemind:

- How feasible are the following routes, given my resume?

- If you had my resume and wanted to optimize for the above, what would you do?

- Are there any routes not on the list that I should consider? Are there important steps I'm missing?

- What gaps in my resume can I fill in the next 3 months?

1. Become a data scientist / ML engineer at a large company

1a. Study a lot. For the purpose of this post, let's assume my technical interview skills are in the top 25% of FAANG applicants.

1b. Publish 2-3 portfolio projects and maybe a paper on our startup's IP

1c. Apply to every relevant job I can find

2. Apply for leadership/non-IC positions at smaller companies

2a. Practice interviewing with colleagues in management

2b. Apply

I am concerned that my resume does not look like that of a typical management applicant. My experience shipping hardware might make up for this at a hardware/ML startup?

3. Do software or hardware (without ML) because the economy right now is garbage

Thanks everyone.

CEO of a basement ML/hardware company. My CTO/brother is primarily on algorithm and firmware right now and we just brought on a long time friend and occasional coworker as COO / product lead. I fill all over the place. So far things have been going fine, but they're fine until they're not and I'd like to know what you all have had to do when your team grew by 50% overnight. Some things we've had to change already are:

> Use actual task tracking software instead of personal to-do lists

> Actual scheduled planning meetings instead of random thoughts about business at the kitchen table

> Converting to a Delaware C Corp instead of WA LLC

> Compiling a list of mentors, advisors, and other network connections

> Daily standup (5 minute)

> Actual office space

> Deliberate company culture initiatives instead of decades of established family values

Hit me with your war stories and advice.