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What you are saying is that it may increase your odds of success, but it by no means guarantees it. If you do nothing - you won't succeed. If you do everything
by papito 3y ago
What you are saying is that it may increase your odds of success, but it by no means guarantees it.
If you do nothing - you won't succeed. If you do everything - you may succeed.
- tmoertel 3y agoBut the choice isn't between doing a startup and doing nothing. It's between doing a startup and taking an established tech job at, say, a FAANG. For most definitions of success, the second route leads to success with pretty high probability. While a startup win has much higher payoff, I suspect that the expected utility is higher for the other option.
- papito 3y agoRight, but the original article is about startups :) Life is a wide-ranging buffet of risks, just like the stock market. You can choose anywhere from bonds (career, stable job) to penny stocks (startups).