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Mark was the CEO, the lead developer, the lead business guy, the lead operations guy, and nearly everything else you can think of. He likely had unlimited power to doctor anything he liked, and probably in a way that would not make it easy for other employees to notice. Even if they did use source control, he could probably mask those commits.

Honestly I'm not even sure how many other technical employees they had. I would assume only a few.




Would also explain why he never grew the team out more -- would make it more difficult to control the situtation.


Wow, this is something that's been bothering me for some time. Why didn't Mark grow the team? He evidently didn't have any employees, just a handful of contractors.

This would explain why.




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