how I’d build a startup
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This is how I would build a startup
It's something we shouldn't even be thinking about at Workflow
Work isn’t war
Principles of how to build a product
building products is all about tradeoffs. wholeheartedly recommend coming up with a set of principles that you can refer to whenever something is in doubt and you need criteria to evaluate a decision. these were the principles we came up with at sublime