Working at a pre-IPO startup is a very intense environment...

...an environment ripe for making and breaking personal relationships.

In my first full-time job in tech, I didn’t know what to expect from a tech-industry job and didn’t understand how all-consuming a pre-IPO startup can be. I hadn’t developed any practices or boundaries for managing it.

I was working both on the company’s web site as well as on the GUI for one of the products they were developing. I was diving in and lear…