Trapped in the Technologist Factory
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This first-person essay recounts a software engineer's career across two startups, Runa and Factual, both of which failed to reach the growth their investors expected. Runa's dynamic-pricing business never won retailer trust, and Factual's data business drifted into location-based advertising, which the author came to find distasteful.