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Startup employees do just as much bullshit to make it seem like they're busy. Their main incentive is to keep their job, not make the company successful.
by xyzzy4 10y ago
Startup employees do just as much bullshit to make it seem like they're busy. Their main incentive is to keep their job, not make the company successful.
- ikeboy 10y agoPart of the mechanism is that there are fewer layers of management so less room for bs.
- nine_k 10y agoStartup employees are partly paid in stock, so they do have incentives to make the company successful. At the very least they want the company to break even before the runway money end, else the payroll will stop rolling.
- Bartweiss 10y agoI did some startup (and pseudo-startup) work in college, when I wasn't getting any stock. From personal experience, it's still motivational to wonder whether your next paycheck is coming out. Not always pleasant, but it was a great incentive to push back against busywork and time-wasting management even if the reception was bad. "We might go bankrupt" really shifts the balance on "how much should I invest in fighting for good decisions?"