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By those standards, you'd have to be even dumber to be a founder: bad hours, lots of risk, bad pay and lots of stress. Most good founders were employees at hot
by rjurney 15y ago
By those standards, you'd have to be even dumber to be a founder: bad hours, lots of risk, bad pay and lots of stress.
Most good founders were employees at hot startups, where they learned what to do and joined 'networks of success.'
- tlb 15y agoLess than "most" good founders were employees at hot startups. I base this on a good deal of data.
- rjurney 15y agoPost it. I have data to the contrary.
- zach 15y agoDo you have as many data points as Trevor does, though? Just curious since this would be impressive in itself.
- rjurney 15y agoDidn't know that was Trevor, but I do have hard data on this. I took the time to collect it for the Atlanta security cluster. Most Y Combinator founders are young, so sample bias is likely present. Then again, Atlanta sucks, so only old fuckers start companies. :)
- rjurney 15y agoEvidence that "most" good founders were employees at hot startups, and that most important companies that generate the most wealth occur in 'networks of success': https://s3.amazonaws.com/rjurney_public_web/images/Atlanta-Security-Startup-Founders-Network.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/rjurney_public_web/images/Atlanta-S... https://s3.amazonaws.com/rjurney_public_web/images/fairchild+silicon+valley+genealogy+(1).jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/rjurney_public_web/images/fairchild... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia#Membership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia#Membership
- tlb 15y agoInteresting. Atlanta security startups have significant pedigrees. It's the same in chip companies, where founders are older and many trace their roots back to Fairchild. Among consumer internet companies, most good founders have not been part of a successful company before.
- rjurney 15y agoWhat of the Paypal mafia?
- ajju 15y agoI dare say it's time to add RideCell to that cluster, one node from CipherTrust :)