I often wondered what work was like for our communications director, who was in her mid-thirties and had come through the investors. She was vastly more experienced than anyone else at the company, and far too professional to gossip or complain. She left the office every day at 5:00 to pick up her kids, and I suspected she was penalized for this: marketing and communications did not grow with the rest of the startup. There was no one else on the team. The CEO kept a drawing of himself, made by one of her children, pinned to a corkboard next to his workstation.
