This post is well written and accurate except for the salary numbers. As someone who's done a number of startups I do make fun of friends of mine who refer to

This post is well written and accurate except for the salary numbers. As someone who's done a number of startups I do make fun of friends of mine who refer to mutual FAANG employed friends as "wage slaves" making quite literally $10k bi-weekly. As I'm getting into my 30's I totally see the appeal - becoming less materialistic outside of experiences and my personal financial stability is also making a "huge exit" given the emotional energy input less and less appealing. Guess Paul Graham was right about naive young founders after all /s