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Huh? pretty much every one of the recently successful AI startup employees (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) have had stints at Google Brain.
by eldenring 4y ago
Huh? pretty much every one of the recently successful AI startup employees (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) have had stints at Google Brain.
- ben_w 4y agoOpenAI is roughly 375 people, I don't know how big Anthropic is but I assume similar. I think the person you're replying to is wondering why the other 25 million of us aren't doing the same.
- outside1234 4y agoThe money at FAANG is really hard to beat on a risk adjusted basis (though that risk factor is increasing with the layoff spree). From a financial perspective it is much more probable to become a millionaire through a FAANG than a startup right now.
- bobthepanda 4y agoRight now is also a harder time to start a startup because of the interest rate hikes reducing available capital. It already impacted SVB's deposits (and caused the ensuing bank run)
- usrusr 4y agoThat, and why would a FAANG employee have more "founder attitude" than, say, an IBM suit? They've been the career choice of the "my car is bigger than yours" salary-seekers for more years than they had ever been recognizably "startup". One of the "A" hasn't been anything remotely related to startup since long before they ousted Steve Jobs!
- wslh 4y agoThat is the lesson number one in YC Startup School.
- airstrike 4y agoIt is also much more probable to become a multimillionaire through a startup than a FAANG
- Mistletoe 4y agoIt remains to be seen if this is true when interest rates aren’t at nearly 0%.
- eldenring 4y agoIt's hard to blame interest rates for all the wealth in tech when you look at all the new products and innovations that have happened over the last 10 years.
- Mistletoe 4y agoCan you list some? I see the last ten years as a great failure in tech following the decade of real innovation and paradigm change that came before it.
- ben_w 4y agoGPT-1…4, Falcon 9 reusability (+ Starlink being possible), most modern VR headsets (Oculus public demo was just over ten years ago), 3D printing is a lot better on many axes, commercially viable consumer OLED, displacement of CFL with LED, vegan "cheese" alternatives suck much less than a decade ago, DNA tests so cheap multiple different companies spam advertising for them at me, vat-grown meat is slowly transitioning from sci-fi to panicking Italian farmers into calling for bans, electric cars have gone from expensive Tesla Roadsters to the ~ 20-fold cheaper Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, about 90% of all PV happened in the last decade (and following a roughly exponential growth rate).
- blululu 4y agoCitation needed. Depends on how big of a multi you are talking about. I know way more people with $1-10M who did it via corporate ladder climbing through FAANG than I do people who struck it big with a startup. At a certain point the balance is in favor of start ups but I suspect the number is somewhere in the 8 figure range which is correspondingly rare.
- diceduckmonk 4y agoIt’s not probable, it’s guaranteed at FAANG.
- moneywoes 4y agoSeems a bit tough with the hiring freeze
- adastra22 4y ago25 million? Where are you pulling this ginormous number from?
- ben_w 4y agoBy the up-thread quotation "existing companies" leading to googling the global software development workforce.