Alright, this is the part of the message in question, in case it wasn't clear: > But in practice, for startups it's almost never the case, and having this beli

Alright, this is the part of the message in question, in case it wasn't clear: > But in practice, for startups it's almost never the case, and having this belief is actually harmful. Maybe they were thinking of startups in the earliest stages (before having any real number of employees, Pre-series A), but the failures in those situations are less nuanced, at least in this context - do they really need discussion? The article is clearly talking about companies that were not in the earliest stage at the time of the actions being discussed.