Four Years in Startups

Re:Four Years in Startups by nilkanthjp on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @07:15PM (#21065718)

The companies, locations, and people referenced in this article are so thinly veiled I don't understand why they'd try to keep them anonymous at all?

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Re:Four Years in Startups by MFLoon on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:12PM (#21066173)

I don't think they're claiming to actually anonymize them. Seems like it's just a stylistic choice to not affirmatively identify them.

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Re:Four Years in Startups by john-radio on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:52AM (#21070752)

And avoiding a potential libel suit.

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Re:Four Years in Startups by aditya34 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:07PM (#21073432)

It's only libel if it isn't true.

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Re:Four Years in Startups by typpo on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:10PM (#21066163)

To save the rest of you some trouble, the startups are Oyster ("e-books"), Mixpanel ("big data"), and Github ("open source").

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Re:Four Years in Startups by ambivalents on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:47PM (#21095056)

While it was probably a legal decision, I actually liked how it worked on an artistic level. As a reader I was trying to piece it together myself. And it also left a feeling of, 'well, this is a specific company she is talking about, but at the same time could easily apply to dozens of others in the industry.'

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Re:Four Years in Startups by john_moscow on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @07:40PM (#21065929)

So they can't sue back.

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Re:Four Years in Startups by nilkanthjp on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:58PM (#21067174)

Ah yes, the technicalities of our wonderful justice system.

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