Trends to Avoid When Founding a Startup
I don't want to diminish the success that this company is having being run in their own way, but give me a break with these blog posts.<p>VC is a "trend to avoid"?  Avoid "Hypergrowth"?  I guess companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest and a hundred others all really messed up.<p>I mean I could go point by point and give examples that are the opposite of these trends, but that isn't any more meaningful than these suggestions.  You can choose to run a company however you want, and you should.  If you believe these things are bad, don't do them.  Attract employees that agree with you.  The market will decide if you are right or not.<p>But enough with the blog posts about it, especially if they are dismissing critical tools that many companies use very successfully.  Every company is different, every product is different, every team is different.  Use some common sense on what tools make sense for you, and keep an open mind.