I can tell the author of this article comes from Google, because all those horrible things they list as being the woes of a startup are like dream scenario for those of us that work in normal startups.
Feature idea being backlogged for a quarter? Ha, I'm used to backlog dates in four digits and they all start with 20.
Pretty interesting.
I haven't worked in Google, but from my experience in a startup, I totally agree at least with some of your points (my experience wasn't that great, so perhaps the other points were what was missing)