Andres Wydler: Gaslighter Supreme - Recensione dipendente - Manager presso StartOut

The pros are what brings you in and that’s what you’ll miss when you to leave. Because you will. The most senior person outside of the C-Suite has a tenure of barely 2 years. It’s simply unbearable due to one man: Andres Wydler. While Andres, doesn’t typically have his hands in day to day activities (unless he wants to step on your toes), he is the anchor that drags the staff to their death. The definition of gaslighting should simply be his face. From speaking over employees during presentations, to undermining team members expertise, to dropping random KPIs in the 11th hour, Andres may have been a great entrepreneur but he is a terrible manager and even worse leader. StartOut exists to directly counteract the benefits that are typically only available to straight cis white men however the only diversity element he cares about is changing straight to gay. Gay cis white men is who he is biased towards and who he listens to with the rare exception of a gay cis white woman. His speeches around caring for diversity are devoid of any heart or real interest especially when there are direct contradictory and condescending statements made towards black and brown, trans or Latinx founders. It’s easy to read a review from 2018 and think, maybe things have changed since then. If they have, they’ve only gotten worse. I find it laughable that there is a flagship event called the StartOut Equity Summit when the organization’s Executive Direction couldn’t care less about it. Andres cares about fundraising, meeting the KPIs presented to the board and using StartOut as his personal white savior guilt vehicle. Which, I could look past if he was open to recognizing his shortcomings and flanking himself with people and resources to handle the soft skills that he severely lacks. But he doesn’t.