> The smartest people I know are itching to work at startups. What's stopping them? In my experience, the people who actually want to work at startups tend to

> The smartest people I know are itching to work at startups. What's stopping them? In my experience, the people who actually want to work at startups tend to be either (a) very young engineers, who have more risk tolerance and perhaps more naiveté, or (b) people who worked at a successful company (e.g., FANG) and set aside a comfortable nest egg, and therefore also have high risk tolerance.