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Mishnah Oholot 5:1-2 · Startup voice, On-ramp
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Hook
You are scaling your startup. You’ve built a proprietary technical architecture—your "oven"—and you’ve carefully vented it to the outside world to manage your burn and exhaust. But suddenly, a "corpse" enters the room: a catastrophic market shift, a PR crisis, or a legal challenge that threatens to contaminate your entire ecosystem.
The dilemma is binary and brutal: Do you seal off your core product, risking a complete shutdown of operations to save the brand? Or do you attempt to isolate the contamination, betting that your internal safeguards are robust enough to keep your "upper story"—your leadership team, your core IP, your investors—pure?
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