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Wanting to start your own venture is a noble ambition -- I hope you do it! Working as an employee at either a startup or a big company will not prepare you in a
by chmaynard 6y ago
Wanting to start your own venture is a noble ambition -- I hope you do it! Working as an employee at either a startup or a big company will not prepare you in any way for being a founder. But if the work is fun and you think you will learn something useful, then by all means go for it.
Don't compromise on your salary, you should be paid the market rate. Oh, and the options are probably worthless.
- swyx 6y agothanks! i definitely felt like my time at a series B-C startup didnt really prepare me so you're right. i'm wondering if the pre-A stage is different. i think "the market rate" is a myth, or at least too simplistic a model. there's FAANG, and then there's everyone else. The difference seems to be about 1-200k (not kidding). the startups i speak to literally cant afford my FAANG comp. Does that mean the whole world should move to FAANG payscales? no, even though i'd benefit, i don't believe that.