When you do a startup you have to learn about building a product, finding customers, managing a team efficiently, hiring the right people, building a brand for

When you do a startup you have to learn about building a product, finding customers, managing a team efficiently, hiring the right people, building a brand for your company, determine a revenue model, basic bookkeeping, and so on. I'm just listing a couple of the many things you have to learn when doing a startup. None of these things you have to do when you're a software engineer in an established company. You can only spend a few hours a day on software, if you're lucky. The rest of the time you're building different skills. So that's why I can't take the claim "you don't learn anything" seriously. If you're in meetings all day you're either not delegating enough or you like being in meetings all day. Either way nobody is forcing you to have meetings all day every day.