This is a whimsical, satirical and honestly quite unfair analogy between the ancient Indoeuropean religion described in The Ancient City and a typical technology startup.

• The ancestors are the investors. Older ancestors get diluted by the newer ones. But they are all worshipped nonetheless, only in different proportions.
• The object of worship has a center. The hearth is a web service that always must be burning and be constantly tended to.
• The cult is private, controlled by very few, and assisted by many subjects that can solely belong to that cult. You cannot belong to two cults at the same time. If someone leaves, they are dead to the cult and not really spoken about (not officially, at least).
• Rituals such as standups, onboardings, brainstormings, investment rounds are the core activity in which everyone engages (credit to ChatGPT for this one).
• The ways of the cult are secret, privy only to those inside. Even the subjects know little about it; only those in charge can know. But, looked from the outside, these cults have a great deal in common, and honestly not much that you’d find useful yourself.
• The goal of those in power is to be worshipped in turn, when they move on to the higher realm of not having to tend the fire or the fields. For the subjects, their consolation is rather more meager.
• Outside parties are only thought of in terms of the benefit to the company.

Now, what would be the equivalent of Christianity in this analogy? Might be a thought to give that one a try.