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The modern SV startup treats users the way that a coal miner treats a mountain or an LBO guy treats a middle market company. Just a resource to be exploited as they go from Engineering Manager at Salesforce to VP at Twitter and given nothing but the middle finger for their troubles.

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I have known both EMs at Salesforce and VPs at Twitter, and believe me they return the favor.

The idea that SV startups aren't staffed by ruthless business people is one of the sillier thoughts still percolating around. YC/HN and similar orgs are the child soldiers/shields of VCs. There isn't anything edgy or innovative about it, and hasn't been since the 90s.

what do you mean by this? child soldiers for VCs? you mean HN/YC kind of defends ruthless VC people because they are naive?

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