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Not really a good metaphor. Steve Jobs, Tony Fadell, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, and many more entrepreneurs chose to start a second company rather than take a C le
by temphn 14y ago
Not really a good metaphor. Steve Jobs, Tony Fadell, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, and many more entrepreneurs chose to start a second company rather than take a C level job somewhere else. A better analogy is whether to adapt an off the shelf piece of code to scratch your itch (often a reasonable choice) or to write your own from scratch, clean slate. The latter is much more risky, but that fits a certain personality.
- FrojoS 14y agoExactly. With her connections, knowledge and wealth she might be able to build an amazing company from scratch.
- kamaal 14y agoNot exactly, Building a successful company is not a joke even if you have knowledge and connections. Users don't value what and whom you know. At her level and for all she has done, getting to be the CEO of a billion dollar firm is actually a great deal. Looking at it from other way around, Her career at Google might have probably come to a halt given the fact that Larry and Sergey are going to be there around for a long time to come. On the other hand, she could not be the CEO of a successful firm- Because such stints demand prior experience. In short the change she got now is because, the company is currently a underdog. No big CEO who is already on a wave of success will take up that kind of a job. She needs the company because she gets to be the CEO and nobody else would offer her the same position. In many ways this is a no brainer.
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- sriram_sun 14y agoAll these people were Founders. Employee No. 19 <> Employee No. 1 <> Founder. Mayer was not a founder. It's probably easier to rationalize going from employee to CEO than founder to employee even if that employee happens to be CEO. Having said that, I realize most companies get acquired and most founders probably end up as employees anyway.