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by vulcan01 962 days ago
> self select for people generally later in their career or with a much bigger safety net

They're still basically a startup / pre-stable revenue, and most folks at startups are not risk-averse. So I'm not sure this bias really affects them at this stage of the company; even if they didn't have this hiring policy the people who want to work at startups have the same characteristics.