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The Startup Trap (2013)
- You have joined a new startup. - You are a multi-talented mega-being.
A young programmer begins with all the best intensions, learns all the right disciplines, develops all the right skills, and then falls prey to The Start-Up Trap. Come back to that company in five years and (if they’ve managed to survive) they’ll still have the same attitude towards the rules that they had in the first phase – except, perhaps, for the overtime. Catastrophes will become more and more common as errors, that should never have happened, create corruptions and damage that take huge traunches of time to repair.
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