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People tend to gauge others by their own strengths. Your experience building a company from 0 to 5000 monthly users won't be valued as much by a tech lead who m
by muzani 4y ago
People tend to gauge others by their own strengths. Your experience building a company from 0 to 5000 monthly users won't be valued as much by a tech lead who manages a product with 5 million daily users.
I ended up in jobs building things from scratch after that. Consulting for pre-investment companies. Consulting billion dollar companies who wanted a full rewrite of their flagship product. Building experimental products for startups.
But in the past, the demand for engineers is extremely high and it's not hard to find a job anyway.
- b20000 4y agohow did you find your startup clients as a consultant, and how did you find the billion dollar companies?
- muzani 4y agoShort answer: network. One client was a VC. Another did PR for corporations who did startupish events (hackathons, incubators, go to market events). 80% of startup projects came from there. Billion dollar company was a client of a friend. He delivered a major project for them, got first notice for the new one, and assembled people for it. Networking isn't just going around meeting people. You have to put in the work and deliver over expectations every time before they'll recommend you to bigger people.