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Oh for goodness sakes. I'm sick of this woe-is-me, I-wasn't-around-for-the-90s, entrepreneurship is killing Silicon Valley bs. It is hard for Facebook to get a

Oh for goodness sakes. I'm sick of this woe-is-me, I-wasn't-around-for-the-90s, entrepreneurship is killing Silicon Valley bs. It is hard for Facebook to get an engineer. It is hard for Google to get an engineer. It is not particularly hard for a reasonably funded startup to get an engineer. I have a startup in San Francisco. When I post job opening, I get 50+ applications. When I email my network, I pick up even more. Because I'm picky, it probably takes 100 resumés before I find someone I'm looking for. However, there are plenty of people out there that, with six months of training, could easily meet your needs. Unfortunately as a small startup, I can't really afford that. Facebook can. They choose not to. Further, I would like to point out the difference between doing Big Things and doing Great Things. I was the Chief Architect of Napster. I did Big Things. Were they Great Things? Probably not. Is the Facebook Like button or Facebook Pages a Great Thing? Almost certainly not.

badclient 15y ago
These posts are nothing short of slimy and the authors should be called out for their scumbag moment. I am tempted to call them outright scumbags but I'll give them the benefit of doubt for now. Personally, I have no problem if they believe that more of their talent should stick around and not do startups of their own. But if that is your position, just state it. Don't wrap it around a seemingly noble message like "do great" when in fact your real message is "fuck I hate these programmers who just wanna do their own thing and not work for me."