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"Better corp for the world" is subjective. "Pay well" but maybe not quite as well as Meta, and for our purposes I am excluding other FAANGs (except Waymo, sort
by Ancalagon 4y ago
"Better corp for the world" is subjective.
"Pay well" but maybe not quite as well as Meta, and for our purposes I am excluding other FAANGs (except Waymo, sort of I guess):
- Roblox
- LinkedIn
- Robinhood
- Databricks
- Bytedance
- Box
- Stripe
- Two Sigma
- Lyft
- Uber
- Instacart
- Cruise
- Doordash
- Waymo
- Airbnb
- Pinterest
Companies which imo have a more positive impact on the world than Meta:
- Waymo/Cruise (autonomous driving)
- LinkedIn - close call, but a more professional social network with the intent of matching employers with employees and taking most of their profits from the advertising of those jobs without influencing global politics
- Stripe - value comes from payments processing for companies big and small which is a valuable product in its own right
- Lyft/Uber - close call again, but I think the disruption of the taxi industry and the additional options for transportation have really revolutionized how many people get around day-to-day.
- RestlessMind 4y agoThanks for answering the question honestly. Looking at that list, I can see only LinkedIn / Databricks / Box / Cruise / Waymo as qualifying for "not making the world shittier" criteria. But quitting Meta to go work for another variant of social media like Roblox / Bytedance / Pinterest? Or Airbnb / Uber / Lyft / Instacart with lots of negative externalities by exploiting labor arbitrage? That doesn't really make any sense.
- Ancalagon 4y agoSure, but that does answer your original ask. There are options, especially if you're willing to work for just slightly less (or in some cases you can still get a raise by switching) to work at a company that pays well and makes a more positive impact on the world.
- RestlessMind 4y ago> especially if you're willing to work for just slightly less Well, in that entire list, following are the companies who don't make the world shittier: LinkedIn / Stripe / Databricks / Box / Cruise. (I will omit Waymo because its parent is Alphabet, which fails shittiness criteria). Box stock is flat since 2015. Databricks / Stripe are private so no liquidity. So only LinkedIn qualifies for "slightly less pay but not shittier world". Though I agree that there is an option if someone wants.
- Ancalagon 4y agoI mean FB stock is negative if you count people who joined in the last year...Even flat is better than that
- RestlessMind 4y agoLet's compare Apples to Apples? I was citing Box stock since 2015. FB is more than double its 2015 price.
- MikusR 4y agoRoblox? This Roblox? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034
- Ancalagon 4y agoI never said it was a better company than Meta? Just that it paid similarly.
- RestlessMind 4y agoWell, the whole point is about "pay as well as Facebook and yet are a better corp for the world". So citing Roblox is pointless.