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> The smaller a company is, the more it's like a family, and the more family-style dysfunction there is Why do you say so? I thought startup family like cultur

• vba616 5y ago
  HN style startups I don't know about. Nobody ever offered me stock in my employer. The overarching theme, I think, is that small businesses are more vulnerable, so there's more pressure on everyone, and fewer rules that matter. Small companies, or sole proprietors, in my experience, like to pretend people are contractors. Woe unto you if you're 17 and naive enough to question the legality. When I think of small businesses, I think of people demanding personal loyalty, lack of respect for the law and safety, and favoritism. I think of cult-like indoctrination. Bosses/owners who think it's ok to demand the same sacrifices of employees that they make to run the company. Lack of internal controls over financial matters, discrimination, or harassment. Besides my general sense of the world, this is founded on my first couple of jobs after high school and before college, and experiences of relatives that ended up in odd places because they were really smart but didn't have a marketable degree.