> The author likely comes from a structured, religious background
How on God's green Earth did you jump to that conclusion? Can't it just be a matter of personal preference, as you said it yourself?
How on God's green Earth did you jump to that conclusion? Can't it just be a matter of personal preference, as you said it yourself?
>How on God's green Earth did you jump to that conclusion?
The author wrote: "From the ages of 19-21, I spent my time as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormon church. I worked 12 hours a day for two years straight with only Christmas and Mother’s Day off. [...] For this job, I was paid a total of 0 dollars."
It seems reasonable to assume that non-religious people wouldn't do that for $0 pay.
I don't understand what this means. Are you just talking about connections?
I've worked with a lot of Mormons in tech. You may have too and not realized it. In my experience, they tend to not put an emphasis on it, it's a more private thing.
Their support system and rigid structure is unparalleled for such a large scale in the US. Their funding church is very wealthy, and the discipline churns out people that are very effective in high growth industries, which is just a convenient side effect relevant right now.
I wouldn’t trade my years at a startup for anything but they can be run by tyrants in a fiefdom just as much as a VP runs an org, sometimes more so as they have no one they report to.