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"Startup" people and "the suits" often don't see eye-to-eye, even today. Paul Graham describes how Yahoo's "anti hacker suit-culture" did Yahoo in. (paraphrased
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"Startup" people and "the suits" often don't see eye-to-eye, even today. Paul Graham describes how Yahoo's "anti hacker suit-culture" did Yahoo in. (paraphrased)
He wrote: "That's why people proposing to destroy [hacker culture] use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example."