3 ms·
You need to be honest with yourself. It's not going to work at this moment. HN is filled with bias for the success stories, but you never hear about those that
by baskethead 5y ago
You need to be honest with yourself. It's not going to work at this moment. HN is filled with bias for the success stories, but you never hear about those that don't make it. I have a friend who is brilliant, Berkeley grad and Stanford PhD, who wasted 11 years trying to start his own startup. He gave up a job at Google and beats himself up every day for literally giving up millions, probably well over $10M had he just stayed.
Go get a well paying job, and start a family. Stop chasing the startup dream, luck has a lot to do with it, and you didn't get lucky. But it's okay, there's no shame in that. You gave it your best shot, but there's more to life than making a startup. You can be extremely happy having a well paying job in tech and raising a wonderful family.
- long_time_gone 5y ago> HN is filled with bias for the success stories This is true. > He gave up a job at Google and beats himself up every day for literally giving up millions, probably well over $10M had he just stayed. This is also a biased success story. Very few people will experience Google-like returns.
- baskethead 5y agoNo. This is actually my friend, who actually lost out on $10M. His other friends that stayed (he was working directly for Marisa Mayer) made at least that much.
- long_time_gone 5y agoI'm not sure what you mean, the success stories that you called biased are also true. Your point wasn't about "truth", it was about being representative of the normal outcome. This story of people getting $10 million working at Google isn't a normal outcome, just like selling your startup for $100 million isn't a normal outcome.