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Big companies have something to lose. A brand, clients, revenue and profits. People don’t want to risk those.

A starup has nothing to lose. The site is janky for two hours? The only users are friends, and the outage might actually bring more visibilty if you make a good write-up.

Incidentally, this ties together with “why do young people found more startups than senior executives”




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