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		jbellis on Oct 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier work... The difference is that at a startup, virtually everyone gets to work on something meaningful. At Bloomberg, a handful out of hundreds.

tptacek on Oct 2, 2009 [–]

The odds are decent that nothing you work on at your startup is going to be meaningful, because nobody is ever going to see it.

jbellis on Oct 4, 2009 | [–]

You're switching definitions of "meaningful."

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