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Bureaucrats are drawn to startups? What? I feel like the author is really clueless and has never worked in a startup. You can't not get work done and survive
by TheMagicHorsey 6y ago
Bureaucrats are drawn to startups? What?
I feel like the author is really clueless and has never worked in a startup.
You can't not get work done and survive in a startup. There's too much visibility into who is doing what to hide. That's not true in the US Government. I've met lots of losers in government who haven't done a bit of useful work in years.
The whole story seems like a concocted ... "oh look how badass and cool I am" scenario. The author is so full of herself.
- solatic 6y agoDefine "startup". There's the startup that's 50-100 people or smaller. In that case, you're completely right. Then there's the "startup" that employs thousands of people and just closed a Series D in anticipation of hiring more. The second is still a completely different beast from old stalwarts of industry like IBM, GM, big Wall Street banks, etc.