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by JonAtkinson 1574 days ago
Because in the current environment it's easy to leverage VC money to stay just-ahead in the user-acquisition race, while the early employees extract very nice salaries and build their networks -- which they can use to find their next role when the gravy train ends.

It really doesn't matter a bit if the product survives in the marketplace or not. It just needs to 'succeed' in the short term.
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ushakov 1574 days ago
all these companies are going to die as soon as they run out of VC-money or can't sustain the growth to get new money

VC-startups are glorified MLMs for early employees and investors

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_zllx 1574 days ago
Those are all okay because they don't use an openly replicated linked list with byzantine fault tolerance. The ones using an openly replicated linked list with byzantine fault tolerance are the only ones that should be subject to scrutiny and public fits of outrage. If they are using PostgreSQL on AWS, there is no issue.
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