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Maximize for learning and personal growth. Startups provide the best place for this. If you have any dreams of being a founder your self, you need to spend time
by scottmcleod 8y ago
Maximize for learning and personal growth. Startups provide the best place for this. If you have any dreams of being a founder your self, you need to spend time in trenches.
If you are a "career" man or woman, I still say spend 4-10 years at startups, then go grind with the usual suspects. By spending time at a startup you acquire a diverse/well rounded set of skills that make you an exceptional team member at big companies down the road. Forget an MBA at anything but a top tier university, do startup(s).
- krschultz 8y agoI used to think your first point was correct, but it's actually not. If you look at the founders of startups, very few of them have worked in other startups. Usually they ladder up as the founder of progressively larger ventures. The other pathway is a prestigious college / MBA program or working their way up through one of the big tech companies and then leaving to start their own thing. I've seen very few "former lead engineer at X startup founded their own company" stories, and that was literally what I was trying to do with my career for probably 5-7 years.