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Is it common for founding engineers at startups to buy software and memory out-of-pocket?

10th January 2012

My answer to Is it common for founding engineers at startups to buy software and memory out-of-pocket? on Quora

Absolutely not, provided the laptop etc belongs to the company and isn’t considered a gift to you.

Posted 10th January 2012 at 1:29 pm · Follow me on Mastodon or Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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