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... but by being allowed to be bad at their job at 21, they are more likely to find success later.
by raziel2p 2y ago
... but by being allowed to be bad at their job at 21, they are more likely to find success later.
- abalashov 2y agoThis is not just true of CEOs. As a precocious chief sysadmin of a small local ISP at age 19, I was allowed to fully administer things no sane company would allow a 19 year-old to touch: sophisticated ADSL aggregation equipment, BGP-speaking border routers, mission-critical core routers, ATM equipment, and so much more. Not everything I did with this power was smart. A lot of my understanding of what that stuff is was learned "improvisationally", and major local customers, including the county government, paid the price. But what I did do was very successfully parlay this experience into a big-kid job (and a mega pay rise) in the big city, which then begat more such jobs. I doubt I could have rocketed that high, that quickly, if the small-town ISP weren't willing to let ambitious but inexperienced people like me screw up, in exchange for paying them semi-student wages.
- throwawayq3423 2y agoThe purpose of a startup is not to supercharge the career of its founders. It's not usually the purpose.