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MCRed on June 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: We need to rethink employee compensation

I think github was the ideal company. They were profitable from day one, grew like crazy.

But they weren't chasing a unicorn.

There's a lot of delusion among "unicorn chasers" that I've seen-- but that may not be the same group you're referring to.

tptacek on June 24, 2015 | [–]

Github was wildly successful, very well established, and profitable when they took the money; they're effectively a bootstrapped company.

If you can bootstrap, you virtually always should.

WalterSear on June 24, 2015 | [–]

I should be more specific: unicorn chasers that aren't huffing their own farts :)

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