If you're choosing to work at a startup you're basically an investor, but you're gambling your time instead of your capital (sort of - time is an opportunity co

If you're choosing to work at a startup you're basically an investor, but you're gambling your time instead of your capital (sort of - time is an opportunity cost of capital you could be making elsewhere). Not everyone is good at being an investor, but it's not entirely luck, there is skill in determining what companies are good and what companies are not.