LVT (LiveView Technologies) reviews

There are a lot of Kool-Aid sippers at the company that will disagree with everything I'm about to say. Initially, I didn't see any cons with LVT but there are quite a few. First, the executives are relatively inept. While they have done a great job starting a company and getting it to the point they're at now, they have no business running the company anymore. While they're trying to hire people outside the company to help get the company to a certain level, none have looked in the mirror and realized they're not the best candidates for their own jobs. The company has gotten to the point where they need to all be replaced to get the company to the level they want it to be. Second, the "culture" they talk about is not what they claim it is. There is a culture of blaming others for failing, and very few people take accountability because of this. Third, some of the executives are way too full of themselves. For instance, the CTO believes he is the smartest person in the room. Between the way he conducts himself and his LinkedIn posts it makes me want to throw up. CEO plays dumb and says he wants input from everyone, but there isn't much evidence that he takes the input into his decision-making. He hears one thing he wants to hear and the company then makes million-dollar decisions without hearing the whole story. On top of that, any difference of opinion is not welcome, if it is not an executive thought it is not welcome, they're the "all-knowing". Fourth, there are no future plans outside of the next two or three years. At every company meeting, there is one date that gets talked about in the future and that is it. Everyone knows that the company is selling and because of that, there are no actual future plans for the company. All decisions seem to be around positioning to sell or go public. As such a lot of employees should be concerned about what a sale or going public looks like. Owners are positioning themselves to be okay but there are no guarantees the employees will be okay. Fifth, managers hire people that are experts in their areas, and yet they don't listen to these experts they've hired. There is a bit of a problem with managers positioning themselves to look like it was their solution that was successful.

-They will preach "Core Values", but don't actually live by them -This place is an ENEMY TO SALES people.... they do NOT like paying commission, and will find any way possible to creatively get out of that obligation -COO is public enemy number 1 (with the CRO making a strong campaign for that spot) and wants to remove all direct sales and turn it into a partner channel driven reseller business only ("so we don't have to pay commissions to sales people anymore and improve our margins") -Very much a "do as I say, not as I do" culture -If you are friends of one of the founders, then you're in good shape. Similarly, if you're willing to kiss the ring of any founder, then you're in good shape -CEO preaches how this is a great opportunity to create "generational wealth" for all employees, since we are all "owners". Yet, their value is not, nor will be, significant enough to create any significant personal revenue event. But, all the founders have been able to handsomely compensate themselves, their friends, and family -VERY disorganized, across all teams (manufacturing, support, sales, product, etc.) -New CRO has been terrible, and very offensive in the office (small-man syndrome) -There has been NO NEW PRODUCT releases since refreshing the software interface 2 years ago. It wasn't until this year that we had more than 2 people on the entire product team -Sales plans constantly change, and the CEO takes months to approve any plan -It is a founder-led business where all 4 of them are mentally checked out ---The CEO is focused on buying his yacht ---The CTO is focused on traveling the world ---The CBDO (his title is a revolving door) is focused on building his 15k+ sq. ft. mansion and his ranch in WY ---The co-founder over manufacturing is more focused on his Porsche ---They are all checked out, but won't stop micromanaging...an odd paradigm