[sillysaurus3]

It's hard to imagine a startup allowing themselves to die because they're trying to patiently re-train and educate someone.

I know startups are a limit case, but we didn't bother to make those sorts of distinctions for this article, so it's worth considering.

[lmm]

If the startup is large enough to have employees who can be fired then it's large enough to train/educate them. 5 whys may be too many for a small startup but 1 is certainly too few.