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By joining the startup with its startup salary, you've already thrown away tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of hard cash you could have earned by ta
by jpatokal 8y ago
By joining the startup with its startup salary, you've already thrown away tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of hard cash you could have earned by taking that Google offer instead. So if you feel that this is a rational decision, spending another $10k to minimize a lot of tax pain down the road is also entirely rational.
It's also an interesting quirk of human psychology that we value the loss of something we have (here $10k in cash) so much more than the cost of not having something in the first place.
- bradlys 8y agoSure but not everyone can make it into Google. I'd be there myself but I can't pass the interviews.
- vgrichina 8y agoIt's not like Google is some magical unicorn place though. It's boring soul-crushing big corp job with overwhelming politics. Seeing smartest people waste their time on this was very depressing for me during 3 years spent there.
- bradlys 8y agoSure but it pays very handsomely to make up for the boringness. I'm already bored/soul-crushed at startups - so I'd be much happier to be bored and getting paid a lot more for it. Politics still seem ridiculous even at the startups I've been at.