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Ask HN: Adjustment After Startup Acquisition

1 pointsby eagleheadalmost 3 years ago
My startup got acquired last year and as part of acquisition the entire team got to join the new company.<p>The company that acquired us is a Fortune 10 company, and we were a very small team. So you can imagine that we just dissolved inside the large team.<p>Since acquisition, I have been personally struggling to stay productive. I feel like I am isolated from all the action and now working on extremely high-level discussions which is obviously a lot different than what I was doing for past decade or so.<p>I feel like an imposter sitting through these leadership calls as if I don&#x27;t belong here? It&#x27;s a bit hard to explain feeling. I am constantly questioning myself on &quot;is this how the large companies work?&quot;<p>As a founder, I was involved in every aspect of my business, dev, sales, customer support, HR, etc. And now I feel like I have a &quot;ceremonial&quot; title with no legs.<p>Anyone else who went through an acquisition felt this way?

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