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The slide about watching other people getting $1-$20 million payouts while you get nothing because you joined a few months later is the worst part. This also h
by jondubois 10y ago
The slide about watching other people getting $1-$20 million payouts while you get nothing because you joined a few months later is the worst part.
This also happens outside of Silicon Valley but perhaps not to such an extreme extent.
The current system is far from a meritocracy because a lot of unlucky people fall through the cracks.
Given how hard I've worked, I've probably fallen through a lot of small cracks (but thankfully no major horror stories as described above).
- ryandrake 10y agoYea, seriously. I never thought of myself as an envious person until coming out here to Silicon Valley and observing the random-jackpot nature of success. You struggle to afford a home hours away from work, while sitting right next to someone with the same skills, job title, education, work history, etc. who has a few million in the bank and drives a new Tesla, and the only difference is he started at the company 6 months before you did. :-/