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My brother built his company (IT services in the manufacturing sector) on the back of Microsoft starting in the mid 90s. He's done extremely well and continues

by kjs3 2y ago

My brother built his company (IT services in the manufacturing sector) on the back of Microsoft starting in the mid 90s. He's done extremely well and continues to work on interesting stuff (these days cloud, complex databases, CRM, etc). Employees are by-and-large long term and well compensated. Not FAANG numbers to be sure, but we're in a city with a reasonable CoL. But he focused on building a long-term sustainable business, not chasing some buzzword-du-jour, VC funded pipedream with a quick exit, and thus no matter his personal success will never have any HN cred.

robertlagrant 2y ago
> and thus no matter his personal success will never have any HN cred These sorts of comments really don't fit with what I've seen here. HN is very encouraging even of personal projects.
- xp84 2y ago
  I interpreted this more as his friend wouldn’t be respected as much by the HN crowd because he’s an entrepreneur with a sustainable lifestyle business, not one that is based on hot cutting-edge tech, breaking new ground, or having the possibility of a 9-10 digit exit. (note: been working in startups most of my career, no options were ever worth a cent so I take it all with a grain of salt and don’t judge) It’s also similar to working for a boring shipping company vs working at FAANG. You could be doing an identical job at both, but one is perceived by some to have a special cachet.
  - robertlagrant 2y ago
    > his friend wouldn’t be respected as much by the HN crowd because he’s an entrepreneur with a sustainable lifestyle business, not one that is based on hot cutting-edge tech, breaking new ground, or having the possibility of a 9-10 digit exit That is indeed what it says, but I've never seen anything to substantiate this. Lots of people are very curious about people who have side hustles, or side hustles that became main hustles. HN is a set of pretty un-herdlike individuals, and you're as likely to see someone who thinks socialism's a great idea as someone who thinks capitalism's lifted billions out of poverty.

by kjs3 2y ago

robertlagrant 2y ago

> and thus no matter his personal success will never have any HN cred These sorts of comments really don't fit with what I've seen here. HN is very encouraging even of personal projects.

xp84 2y ago
I interpreted this more as his friend wouldn’t be respected as much by the HN crowd because he’s an entrepreneur with a sustainable lifestyle business, not one that is based on hot cutting-edge tech, breaking new ground, or having the possibility of a 9-10 digit exit. (note: been working in startups most of my career, no options were ever worth a cent so I take it all with a grain of salt and don’t judge) It’s also similar to working for a boring shipping company vs working at FAANG. You could be doing an identical job at both, but one is perceived by some to have a special cachet.
- robertlagrant 2y ago
  > his friend wouldn’t be respected as much by the HN crowd because he’s an entrepreneur with a sustainable lifestyle business, not one that is based on hot cutting-edge tech, breaking new ground, or having the possibility of a 9-10 digit exit That is indeed what it says, but I've never seen anything to substantiate this. Lots of people are very curious about people who have side hustles, or side hustles that became main hustles. HN is a set of pretty un-herdlike individuals, and you're as likely to see someone who thinks socialism's a great idea as someone who thinks capitalism's lifted billions out of poverty.