Voices
STEVE
BLANK
HUFFINGTON
08.12.12
When I
Was Told
to Lie
on My
Resume…
IT’S NOT THE crime that gets you,
it’s the coverup.
Getting asked by a reporter
about where I went to school
made me remember the day I had
to choose whether to lie on my
resume.
When I got my first job in Silicon Valley, it was through seren-
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dipity (my part) and desperation
(on the part of my first employer).
I really didn’t have much of a resume—four years in the Air Force,
building a scram system for a nuclear reactor, a startup in Ann Arbor Michigan but not much else.
It was at my second startup in
Steve
Blank is the
author of
The Startup
Owner’s
Manual.