> The real losers are the employees It is true that employees are often at the bad end of a power imbalance - which often creates information asymmetry, among

> The real losers are the employees It is true that employees are often at the bad end of a power imbalance - which often creates information asymmetry, among other problems - surly the "real losers" are the people who just had their test results voided. > Who Really Gets Hurt When Startups Blow Up? Depending on what the startup does, one of the groups that is hurt is "the users". I encourage everybody in a startup to listen to one of Jason Scott's talks[1]. He is the Angel Of Death that descends on failed internet startups with his Archive Team that tries to move as much data as possible into the Internet Archive before the servers are shut off. A lot of ordinary people can be caught in the crossfire when the businesses they trusted with their data and infrastructure are sold off as scrap. I'm not trying to diminish the problems that employees face in the same situations. Being laid off sucks. Knowing that years of your own work will end up unfinished is terrible. Instead, I'm suggesting that the users should also be considered in that analysis. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNeE8-iVkwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNeE8-iVkwY