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They are about business model discovery. So if you are fundamentally a technologist at heart, whose heart sings when you’re making a better file syste
by wooster 16y ago
They are about business model discovery.
So if you are fundamentally a technologist
at heart, whose heart sings when you’re
making a better file system, or fixing a
kernel bug, you’re not going to be happy
at a startup.
There are plenty of storage startups in Silicon Valley that would be happy to pay someone to do filesystem work.
Web 2.0 startups are not the only game in town. There are plenty of other companies at which to do serious engineering work.
- merijnv 16y agoOf course, but why go to those if you can do the same work at Google and actually be sure they'll be able to pay you more then you need to life comfortably.
- wooster 16y agoBecause at least at the startup you have the possibility, however remote, of getting FU money and never having to answer to anybody you don't like, ever again. And besides, if you're that good, you don't really have any worries about getting paid what you're worth.
- qq66 16y agoThe whole FU money is mostly a fallacy. If you really love filesystem hacking, and you live in Silicon Valley and are really good at it, you already never have to answer to anybody you don't like, ever again. If you don't like your boss, you can quit, and do this 50 times if you want. And people shouldn't work for a "possibility, however remote." That's called playing the lottery and is generally foolish.