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That was funny. I wonder if she's right about what you learn at a Stanford master's program. I don't feel like I got a great undergraduate education and someti
by starkfist 16y ago
That was funny.
I wonder if she's right about what you learn at a Stanford master's program. I don't feel like I got a great undergraduate education and sometimes daydream that I could learn it all properly if I got into a good master's program like Stanford. I've been doing web startups since undergrad. The stuff you learn at a startup is wildly different from what you learn in school. A lot of the stuff I've learned on the job, I wish I could forget. If only there was a pill I could take that would allow me to regain all the neural pathways now taken up by UNIX arcana.
- old-gregg 16y agoI've been at 3 startups and if you want to _learn_, you better get a job at an established tech company with a solid R&D. Startups are too focused on "ship early&often" which doesn't leave any room for R&D. An average startup will teach the fastest possible assembly of open-sourced blocks together for yet another "big" sales call or a VC presentation. If only I had a dollar for every time I've heard "how many weeks do we need to build this?" There is a limited set of things you can build in 2-3 weeks which is worth learning.
- starkfist 16y agoYeah, I've been employee < 10 at 3 startups, too. I know exactly what you learn at startups. :)