This would carry a lot more weight if this "startup" at least had a functioning website. Or indeed if work in startups was anything like the army (which it is n

This would carry a lot more weight if this "startup" at least had a functioning website. Or indeed if work in startups was anything like the army (which it is not - I've been through this). It's weird: I freelance now, and work almost exclusively with startups, and I observe that a nontrivial fraction of people are in it for the "allure". Such folks tend to write a lot of articles on Medium and Substack, post a lot on Twitter, too, and then... nothing. Case in point: one of my clients is currently busy discussing _OKRs_ even though they haven't raised the seed round yet, have no prototype, and what little code they do have is so thoroughly busted I can't even start working on it. No shortage of social media posts tho.