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I worked for 2 years in a pharma-startup in Basel. First (and last) try from my side to work in a startup. I left early on. Now it is struggling for survival, cutting more than 50% of staff. My my experience there, I could say that it fits the profile described in the article.

"Work during the weekends" was masked behind the "be passionate" mantra. Before investors everything was shiny, inside was a rotten apple. Management conducted themselves in a pompous and "self-entitling" way every single day.

Not sure if all startups are so, start like this and than change, or just I had the bad luck of finding one of the bad ones.

Regarding passion, in my opinion, it is for those who really are in for the creation process. Creating something new, something that really changes things. Something that also brings financial freedom or at least makes them feel very very good. Otherwise, there is no such thing as passion without satisfaction. You can’t transfer passion. You can’t make other people passionate (at least not, if you are not Gandhi or someone similar).