Small startups live or die as a group, and there's a certain trust that this creates, so the typical office paranoia (i.e. always-on image management that leads

Small startups live or die as a group, and there's a certain trust that this creates, so the typical office paranoia (i.e. always-on image management that leads to more health problems than most illegal drugs) hasn't set in yet. That changes around 10 employees. Once it becomes obvious that not everyone is going to be a real member of the team, people start spending more attention on their relative status within the company than the absolute success of it, and the hypervigilant bullshit that people typically associate with "work" begins.