Every programmer should have the skill of ...startup? What fluff. I think what he's trying to say in this section is (a) - it is more satisfying to work on a pr

Every programmer should have the skill of ...startup? What fluff. I think what he's trying to say in this section is (a) - it is more satisfying to work on a project you care about than to be well paid (b) - you will be exposed to the entire product lifecycle at a startup and not at a big business, which is useful if you are planning to build products at your own startup later. Aside from the semantic quibble that neither of these are 'skills' that a programmer should have, I think (a) is proposing a false dilemma, and (b) is not necessarily true, and even if true, is not shown to be useful to 'all programmers' (per the title) but just 'programmers who want to be entrepeneurs', a much smaller group.