Ollama CEO says a two-week deadline ended two lost years
cen6wkf · reddit · 2026-09-19
- Ollama CEO Jeffrey Morgan says he lost two years after selling his last company, until one decision fixed it: a two-week deadline to ship a first version, which by his count pulled in more users than anything they'd shipped before.
- The author extends this: Morgan could throw everything out because the company was his own; an employee doing the same gets a performance plan. Deadline-less engineers with commoditizing skills and flat salaries face a widening gap as more of the stack gets swappable from under them.
- This week's proof point: after Anthropic tightened paid weekly limits, developers are pointing Claude Code at OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek backends — OpenRouter and home-built gateways make the switch a one-line base-URL change. The open-model story hasn't yet paid off for individual engineers.
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