<i>"Gen George C. Marshall received a report from a general on his staff that some of Marshall’s officers had morale problems. General Marshall said, </i>'Officers don’t have morale problems. Officers cure morale problems in others. No one is looking after my morale.'<i>"</i><p>(<a href="http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a454364.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a454364.pdf</a>)
I can relate to all of these because <i>I've lived through all of these</i>, fortunately not as much in the public eye as Justin and his team (the web was much smaller back then) but this brought back a whole bunch of memories.<p>Thanks Justin (assuming you read HN) for writing these up.
A modern alternative to the pizza delivery message would be to use uber to book a car near the location and upon the allocation of the driver, contact them and ask them to deliver the message.<p>and then drive around the block a few times for their trouble.
It's always interesting to think about the key moments in a start-up's life. Those ride or die moments that lead to great success or losing the Jonas Brother. I wonder how many a startup gets? How many are created by action or by luck? Do all startups have a couple of key moments they can look at as lynch pins to their success?
"we had an “unlimited vacation” policy, which translated into passively discouraging people from taking vacation"<p>I've never heard this described so succinctly and perfectly!
Such a great summary of "unlimited vacation":<p>> Because we were young and terrible managers, we had an “unlimited vacation” policy, which translated into passively discouraging people from taking vacation.