Founding vs. Inheriting: A Review and My Own Saga of the Culture War Between East and West Coast

It is by mere coincidence that my own fate has fallen at the intersection between East Coast inherited institutions and West Coast Founder Disruptors that Balaji highlights in his post: Founding vs. Inheriting. As a naive youthful college graduate in 2012 I embarked on a non-traditional start to my career by spending a year in war-torn Afghanistan implementing what I thought of at the time as just another software system for the Department of Defense. Little did I know at the time that I was…