I chuckled when I read that. Apart from the uninformed way this was expressed, the author's actual interpretation of this statement comes after that: "In acade

I chuckled when I read that. Apart from the uninformed way this was expressed, the author's actual interpretation of this statement comes after that: "In academia, in order to publish a paper, often you just have to get it to work one time out of ten – so you think, OK, I’ll just keep doing the experiment until it works. We need it to work nine or ten times out of ten." So the author confuses it with engineering. Then -- allow me to be a bit cynic -- the actual meaning of the article would be something like: "If you want to be a scientist at a startup, you need to become an engineer."