scrappy

I'd like to point out that -- as much as I'm sure most people love 23andMe -- it's not really a scrappy start-up.

But there's a difference between being scrappy and being a swindler.

And if there is one thing the valley can always make room for, it's the scrappy underdog.

I like the scrappy hard working startup attitude.

" Yes, because everyone who works for a scrappy startup and gets acquired has a huge nest egg, right?

So, you have a bunch of other incubators that have to think scrappy to get people into their programs.

Startups sort of felt rebellious in a way... like little scrappy hack-trepreneurs sticking it to the big guys.

It's like, "Hey look how scrappy we are, willing to push the limits like this, but oh, that's not appropriate for you, you had better play it safe.

They have scaled from scrappy outsiders into significant players.

I like the idea of being scrappy and unorthodox, but one corporate entity protesting another?

It's ludicrous that it's even necessary to paint the archetypical "Google chef" as someone who daringly sacrifices for their scrappy company for them to be worthy of windfall profits.