[angersock]

This is a pretty awful story--I'm very saddened that the author went through it. An interesting observation she makes:

"I know companies are recognised as separate entities, but they are established by people and shaped by people’s decisions and those decisions have an impact on people; therefore business is never just business. (And, if you reverse engineer that equation, ultimately what’s best for the people will be what’s best for the company)."

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Startups, because they blur so heavily the line between personal and business, present a place that can be very exciting and very strange. Combine this with the somewhat young folks that seem to be trying to get in on things, and things can get really rough really quickly.

I was at coffee the other day with a friend and we kicked around the idea of "startups and startup ecosystems as liminal spaces"--places where normal cultural mores and standards do not apply. I think there's something to that.