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It's the threatening of her job that made this unforgivable for me - I can understand someone, at night, reacting overly defensively about their startup. It's something hugely important to them and they identify with it strongly, so they react without thinking too much instead of walking away from the keyboard like they should've.

But their reaction-without-thinking is so telling here that I'm kinda glad they did it. Their first reaction when threatened is to look for the strongest way to lash out and hurt the other person - in this case by threatening their job, by repeatedly trying to drag their employer into the fight (even after Basho did the decent thing and said 'not our concern').

How could you trust a company founded by someone who has an instinctive reaction like that?