That has nothing to do with startups - the PM is an asshole. > so afraid of being publicly railed-on that they wrote pretty much bug-free code all the time. T

That has nothing to do with startups - the PM is an asshole. > so afraid of being publicly railed-on that they wrote pretty much bug-free code all the time. That's a non sequitur. Programmers try to write bug-free code all the time anyway. No one tries to introduce bugs.