On hn, there is sort of bubble of people who think that working for startup is best thing ever and everyone else is selling the soul. HN, for obvious reasons,

On hn, there is sort of bubble of people who think that working for startup is best thing ever and everyone else is selling the soul. HN, for obvious reasons, over-estimates how likely it is a startup will succeed, and over-estimates how much an early-stage employee will make on an exit, and also over-estimates how many valuable experiences an early-stage employee will be exposed to. Vastly.