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It's idiotic how companies always want people who are "insanely passionatiate" about their mission. It makes (slightly) more sense when you have 1-2 employees,
by sportanova 11y ago
It's idiotic how companies always want people who are "insanely passionatiate" about their mission. It makes (slightly) more sense when you have 1-2 employees, but good luck finding 20+ people who have the skills you need AND are insanely passionate about empowering X to do Y through [buzzwords].
Actually it's not idiotic, it's dishonest. The reason they do it is so they can later frame everything in moral terms around the mission. Only working 60 hours? Not happy making 50% of market with .35% equity? You must not really believe in the mission!
- nickpsecurity 11y ago"Only working 60 hours? Not happy making 50% of market with .35% equity? You must not really believe in the mission!" Exactly. Now, there might be more money to make the goal happen and better if only the founders and VC's were similarly passionate rather than profit-motivated. ;)
- sportanova 11y agoThat's the hippocracy of it. You can't have the "money is so unimportant to us, we're changing the world!" attitude while simultaneously screwing over your employees and taking the vast majority of the rewards