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> Most of us do startups to do something more than to schmooze, threaten and ultimately bilk customers paying with other peoples money. Do you know Theranos ?
by adev_ 7y ago
> Most of us do startups to do something more than to schmooze, threaten and ultimately bilk customers paying with other peoples money.
Do you know Theranos ? That's the definition itself of bullshit and it was a "startup".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
Bullshit comes from 5000+ employees to companies with 5 dudes. Scale does not change anything.
Business culture, profit as only value and the culture of fake it until you do it are the source of the problem.
And against that their is not magic solution, excepted trust a lot less the ones that speak and trust a lot more the one that do. In the good old Nerd world, we named that Show me the code