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[bcrosby95]

It's just different priorities.

Startups are busy trying to build a functional house of cards.

Established businesses are trying to keep employees from knocking over that functional house of cards.

[piva00 → bcrosby95]

> Established businesses are trying to keep employees from knocking over that functional house of cards.

And usually also spend the next 10 years cleaning up the total mess of a house of cards from the startup phase into a more manageable and stable house of cards.