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blindriver on July 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Compa...

90% of all startups fail so the expectation of an IPO when you join a startup is insane.

hinkley on July 9, 2023 [–]

And yet many of those companies expect their employees to be excited by that prospect.

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