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Less than 2 years is not enough time to really soak up the skills, experience, connections, and solving enough difficult problems for it to be maximum value. I
by unreal37 14y ago
Less than 2 years is not enough time to really soak up the skills, experience, connections, and solving enough difficult problems for it to be maximum value.
I guess I now kinda get why he's doing it, but he's taking a huge risk with only 2 year of working experience total under his belt. Wish him the best!
- qasar 14y agoI disagree. I think working at a large company for long periods of time can actually stifle your ability to be a great founder. You learn bad habits and your intuition can be deformed by things which help you become successful at Big Co but are useless in early stage companies. Also, I'm at Google and I know John and his work really well. It's almost laughable to imply it was involuntary. John is an all star. The guy actually wants to do a startup because he find the challenge interesting.