I have a different take on VC and what it means. It's one of the reasons I'm where I'm at in my career. VC-backed companies are worse for employee and the tec

I have a different take on VC and what it means. It's one of the reasons I'm where I'm at in my career. VC-backed companies are worse for employee and the technology community, because they'll optimize the use of open-source software but not the giving back. So your career in a VC backed company (at least in Ops) is mostly cobbling together multiple disparate open source projects into something that "works", but you're restricted from sharing your work publicly to give back to the community. Contrasting that with large public companies or small bootstrapped companies, both have been much more willing to allow me to open-source my work or contribute to existing projects in a public way. I'm very happy to work for a bootstrapped small company that only produces 100% pure open-source software these days. Something which was always out of reach when I was bouncing between VC-backed startups.