15 Aug
2001
15 Aug
'01
5:29 p.m.
What I don't like is dog-and-pony shows, too much
sturm und drang.
The investors are getting itchy trigger fingers, so in a mad string of 23
hour days you kludge together a prototype of what in six months could be
proof of concept. Things dangle by wires, error messages get turned off
with an assembly flag, and nobody notices just how "busy" you and the rest
of the engineers are during the demo keeping it alive.
Then in a blur the CEO comes by shakes your hand and says, Great job, lets
ship it.
Dog and pony hell, in a startup its a do I have a job on Monday show.