The Daily WTF

The startup life is difficult, at the best of times. It’s extra hard when the startup’s entire bundle of C-level executives are seniors in college. For the company Aniket Bhattacharyea worked for, they had a product, they had a plan, and they had funding from a Venture Capitalist. More than funding, the VC had their own irons in the fire, and they’d toss subcontracting work to Aniket’s startup. It kept the lights on, but it also ate up their capacity to progress the startup’s product.

One day, the VC had a new product to launch: a children’s clothing store. The minimum viable product, in this case, was just a Magento demo with a Vue Storefront front-end. Strict tutorial-mode stuff, which the VC planned to present to stakeholders as an example of what their product could be.

Everything was going fine until five minutes before the demo. The VC discovered a

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