There's a tremendous toll on the human side that start-ups take on people. And it just didn't seem like something that was being addressed.

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They're isolated from normal sources of support, struggling, seeing a good portion of their income go to rent. Their private lives get put on the back burner.

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Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.

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