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Then you don't really understand startups at all.
by ReflectedImage 4y ago
Then you don't really understand startups at all.
- dbish 4y agoI guess you can say that, I'm early in my startup journey, but do you think Sam Altman doesn't understand startups or have a pulse on what's happening there, because that is quite the claim?
- autotune 4y agoRight? The whole point of a startup is to be doing something different than what “big tech” is doing. If it’s more of the same with the added risk of failing in a year then no one would ever want to join a given startup.
- asdff 4y agoIf people penciled it out logically it makes no sense for a startup to return to office. Consider these two startups: Startup A, paying for an office lease, recruiting talent willing to live near the office. Startup B, saving thousands of dollars not having to pay an office lease, is able to recruit talent from around the world and with the overhead savings can pay for better talent and/or a larger labor pool. It's pretty obvious here that startup B is set up a lot better for success and has a head and shoulders advantage over startup A. This is not even considering the massive environmental costs from commuting and building an office building. The only reason to go for a model like startup A is if you 1, don't care about the environmental costs, and 2, believe in the hooey about "in person synergy" and value that more than just paying for more experience or more people.
- dbish 4y agoThe only thing that matters is shipping (the right thing) when you’re a startup, not environmental costs or saving on an office lease. My opinion is you’ll ship faster due to better/stronger team culture and better communication if you’re in person and that’s all that will matter for success. When you've build a succesful business then you can worry about the other things that don't change your survival materially.
- Daishiman 4y agoI have never seen the whole “more productive culture “ thing pan out ever.
- autotune 4y agoIs the dude chewing gum next to you all day, the sales person always on the phone, or the coworker who hasn’t showered in 3 days to “ship faster” as part of your ideal team of 10x-ers defined in your definition of “better culture?”
- asdff 4y agoI feel like affording more staff probably ships even faster
- paulcole 4y agoYep just like 9 women can have a baby in 1 month.
- rngname22 4y agoStartups whole mission is to grow enough to become the new Big Tech, at least in the US ecosystem in general.