What Gergely Orosz thinks about startups
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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10 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Gergely Orosz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingWhen a startup achieves traction, even poor technical choices can scale and be corrected later.
Their wordsWhen traction hits, even terrible tech choices scale and can be fixed later.
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Their wordsIf anything it adds mobility because every major startup + Big Tech does it do learn once and for all~10 years you benefitted
- 2 days earlier
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Their wordsWhoever doesn’t want to use AI, no problem: but you won’t be hired at 99.9% of startups+Big Tech+ambitious companies, even today
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Their wordsb) more startups filter for “AI positivity” as a whole
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsFor startups starting from scratch, they need to eventually rebuild all those systems: from eg ones for automated testing, manual testing, FF, canary rollouts, o11y, experimentation, migrations etc etc
- 1 day earlier
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Their wordsGetting harder to tell if a trending video / post about a startup launch is real or made up; if funding happened or not.
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Their wordsUnironically one reason startups in the 2010s would start using "hip" technologies + blog about them (eg Clijure, Go, React etc when these were 'new' and still rare) was to hire much easier, especially solid devs who were not allowed to introduce new tech at their current co!!
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI don't know a single startup or serious tech company using Teams sorry they are all on Slack OK, Cloudflare is on GChat
- 5 days earlier
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Their wordsI'm sorry for employees who got equity issued at the $17B or $11B valuation - the dangers of too high valuations!
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIf your CEO/founder has so much to say about a topic: say it and write it! Ironically, every time I look up what the founder has written about the topic they (or their marketing team) are pitching, there's nothing! Nada.