I was 22 when I started and cared very deeply about the consequences of what I was doing.<p>It&#x27;s more about heavily interviewing for alignment with your mission. If people care deeply about the problem you&#x27;re solving — not just the technical problem, the people problem — then you&#x27;re far less likely to have these issues.<p>I interviewed dozens if not hundreds of people at ZP and there were two red flags for engineers:<p>1) They only care about the technical problems. In this case, they&#x27;re likely to make decisions more aligned with &quot;that&#x27;s interesting&quot; than &quot;that helps our customers&quot;<p>2) Once we raised our Series A, we had a lot of applicants wanting to join a rocket ship. I literally heard that in an interview with a Facebook engineer who found us by &quot;googling startups with 9 figure valuations.&quot; If you care about growth at all costs, you&#x27;re going to cut corners and fuck over your customer.<p>Mission matters. Values matter. Interview for them.