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A lot of my disillusionment with startups come from this. Being lied to repeatedly by different owners about how selling should be our goal to really start to win, only for the purchase to be the moment where we really start to lose.

It breaks something precious.

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Well, the owners win. That's usually who they're referring to when they say "our", "us", etc.

And every spring, there's a new batch of suckers who haven't learned what 'we' means.

Old programmers are discriminated against because they point out when you're taking managerial shortcuts or, as in this case, outright lying.

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