OT I was looking for attribution for a little more context but the only clue comes from the footer:

“This article was first published in Medium and appeared in VentureBeat & Business Insider”

I get the syndication and the other outlets using this content at the time it was written (2016). There’s just something very dishonest about the slapping the words on a page with some stock images 6 years later though.

I don’t really have a point - maybe it would be better to link to the original medium (I know) post though?

https://medium.com/startup-lesson-learned/why-i-turned-down-...

Edit: on the other hand the article itself is very honest. And it’s an interesting question.