With the companies I've experienced, I try very hard to hate the game, not the player. With that said, there's only so many buzzwords, tee shirts under sportcoa

With the companies I've experienced, I try very hard to hate the game, not the player. With that said, there's only so many buzzwords, tee shirts under sportcoats, sizing-me-up-and-letting-me-know meetings, assumptions that I'll work for free, emails and conference call gcal invites on federal holidays (like Christmas Day), and more that I can take. Primarily, the peacocking and existential fear to fit in has crippled nearly all the would-be CEOs of actual companies (that turn a profit, even of the ramen variety). Instead, the one round of seed capital (whether its with the suits over in California or daddy's golf friends) tends to get to their head. I've often thought of becoming my own boss out of spite, but I'm a little too inexperienced and don't quite have my own idea fleshed out to put my whole life on hold just yet. I like the show Silicon Valley, but they tend to (obviously) over-exaggerate the stereotype of start-up types. There's a very real undercurrent of the schoolyard need to "fit in" that weaves through most startup-y people, and the closer I get to it all, the funnier it is.