It's the safe and rational choice. I went to work at a startup after college and the company ran out of money in three years and valued my equity at zero. I abs

It's the safe and rational choice. I went to work at a startup after college and the company ran out of money in three years and valued my equity at zero. I absolutely would have been better off financially working for Microsoft. That Palantir worked out is hindsight bias. There's no way he could or should have expected it to succeed at the time.