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• yen223 2y ago
  If you could go back in time, knowing what you know now, would you still have quit your Google job to pursue this business venture?
  • mtlynch 2y ago
    Yep, still happy with the decision. A lot of my comp at Google was stock, so I would have made a lot from the stock price movement over the last six years, and I'm a bit envious of that, but still yes. I do still love the independence of working for myself, so I'm happy to have had the last six years of that rather than feeling unfulfilled at Google. With everything shifting around AI, and big tech could be doing massive dev layoffs in the next five years. Given that risk, I'm happy to have experience as a founder rather than a dev who could be laid off immediately in a down market.