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Laid off - Esther is a confused human being

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All you need is a leap of faith

“I’m more afraid of you not shipping the product than breaking things,” my founder told me. He wasn’t happy that I hadn’t finished my work and went to play ping pong. However, I had finished most of my work, pushing all my code to development environments, just not the last step, pushing it to production. All in all, my founder and I agreed that we were very slow, given that I had been here for six weeks. Is it six weeks long? Yes, it is long for a startup that is trying to launch its product. No, it is not for a fresh graduate who just started a career six weeks ago. Dear weirdos, I’m…

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