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Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?

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You can find analysis and hints on this and other similar situations in the last book from Ben Horowitz "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building-ebook.... I'm reading it now. There are a lot of interesting insights about how startup Companies scaling works.

Re: Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?

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post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you're correct (very debatable), it doesn't matter: they're the ones funding the company, so they get to make the decisions. This doesn't always work out well, but it's not unreasonable.

One could make the same argument for hereditary monarchy. Which I would take as a sign that maybe it is unreasonable.

Except that taking funding is a voluntary action. Living under a hereditary monarchy is not.
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