Exploding Companies

"Supernova are pretty awe-inspiring, but you don't want to be anywhere near one." - Gene.

Have you ever had a company that you worked closely with shut down? Like a contractor, vendor or whatever?

I have. One of the small vendors we used to send projects decided to stop operating because its founders decided it wasn't for them and went their separate ways. To be honest, they were expensive and weren't all that good.

It's a strange feeling. It's a quiet, realistic, down-to-earth moment, like someone died, or a house is being torn down, or some OOP object was destroyed. It's in-the-face reality, spare nothing at all. Looking back at it is like some macabre fascination with that which have died.

Being at least somewhat able at reasoning, I did see it coming. Like the China crash.

Still, nothing beats actually seeing it happen.