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"""I'm so glad I was pushing 30 before I really became aware of this startup scene. The general impression that comes off, to me at least, is work hard, stop mo
by dextorious 15y ago
"""I'm so glad I was pushing 30 before I really became aware of this startup scene. The general impression that comes off, to me at least, is work hard, stop moaning, accept pennies and one day you'll be rich - assuming that unlikely outcome happens and we don't use of the thousand ways possible to screw you out of any riches."""
Startups are tax for people who are good at math, but don't bother checking their odds.
- shadowfiend 15y agoThat's under the terribly flawed assumption that economic outcome is the only thing that matters. There are many other considerations that make a startup appealing (culture, for example).
- ahoyhere 15y agoThat's under the terribly flawed assumption that "culture" can only be had at a "startup."
- shadowfiend 15y agoHardly. I said there are other considerations. There is no statement therein indicating that culture can only be had at a startup. A culture exists at every company, and the culture at a particular startup may simply appeal to someone more than that of a given corporation that offers them a job. This would be one consideration, in addition to compensation, in whether to take a job there or not. I also merely offered culture as one example, not as the only additional consideration.
- smilliken 15y agoAlso consider that successful outcomes aren't distributed evenly; if you're exceptionally talented and work at an exceptionally good company, then it's not about odds, it's about execution. It's only gambling in the way a professional poker player gambles.
- dextorious 15y agoTons of "exceptionally talented" programmers got their respective startups nowhere. And the "exceptionally good company" -> success, borders on tautology, because how else do you measure an exceptionally good company besides success? """It's only gambling in the way a professional poker player gambles""" Yeah, you influence your fate and all. But poker is even less random than startup success --at least randomness there is constrained, will on a startup you have tons of sources of randomness: The startup founders, the employees, the economy in general, the society in general (fads, etc), investors, the client pool, you name it...