TL;DR anyone? I couldn't care less about communication skills of Andy and whether some meeting was in person, before even getting a hint of what is the point of that post.
Me and people close to me been a witness to a startup demise several times. In a startup it's really easy to tell - the product falls short of revenues/active users expectations, the funding starts to run out, the management starts to act frantic and invents all kinds of "creative" ways to "revive" the product, core team members start departing :)
