Own It or Get Out: Why Startups Demand Extreme Ownership

Serge van Dam discusses the brutal truth about responsibility in startups.

Mar 04, 2025

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Scribbles from the Startup Frontlines

TL;DR: If you don’t believe you have free will, startups are likely not for you.

The Free Will Questions

I studied philosophy and psychology at university (where are my corduroy trousers, I hear you ask!). The question of free will was then, and remains now, the biggest question of all in our human existence, and what …

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