[mastazi]

Yeah I can see what you mean in relation to being in the target demographics.

If I go mentally back to when I was in a small startup, then I could kinda see how the article makes sense, because as a technical co-founder I also had (partial) freedom to imagine how the product should be, besides having to actually write code. But then all the "politics-related" aspects that the article mentions (the whole "us vs. them" thing) make less sense because in a small startup there isn't as much "politics" as in a larger corporate environment...

Maybe the article applies to a "later stage/larger startup" environment, which I have never experienced, and maybe that's why I find it confusing.

Edit: another thing that you said and makes a lot of sense, is that your dev work often involves creating a product, however in my experience (at least since I left the startup world and went into enterprise) most work has been about dealing with a lot of legacy stuff and developing new features here and there, very rarely having to develop a new product from scratch.