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There's a difference between even screwing over your best friend ("The Social Network"-style) and leaving them to die alone in a frozen desert of hell, where th
by swombat 16y ago
There's a difference between even screwing over your best friend ("The Social Network"-style) and leaving them to die alone in a frozen desert of hell, where their mummified remains will stand for years to come as a grim reminder that someone left them behind.
Sure, there's some very distant analogy, but it's really a different kettle of fish.
- makeramen 16y agoI feel like there's a sort of mutual understanding of the risk among all parties going into these situations. Yes one is much more grim than others, but in concept at least.
- zaidf 16y agoEspecially when "screwing over" means settling a lawsuit with gazillions of dollars. I agree, I don't see much of a similarity between startups and risking death--literally. It seems tantalizing and there is lots of vague overlap in attitudes and risks but that is something startups share with anything requiring lots of hard work, passion and commitment.
- JabavuAdams 16y ago> where their mummified remains will stand for years to come as a grim reminder that someone left them behind. where their mummified remains will stand for years to come as a grim reminder of their awesomeness. Fixed that for you.
- Semiapies 16y agoPeople like to glamorize their business endeavors. Some guys at computers building a web-app just isn't that exciting to people without a lot of fictionalization or likening it to something more exciting.