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My personal opinion is that you are better off finding a job at a medium to largish company first, if you don't plan to go to college. While this may not be th
by brk 17y ago
My personal opinion is that you are better off finding a job at a medium to largish company first, if you don't plan to go to college.
While this may not be the popular opinion here... There are many people out of high school building webapps. There are very very very few people building companies.
Building a viable, sustainable company has a lot of complexity. It is very valuable to see how a "real" company looks and works on the inside, good and bad, so that you have a better idea what to replicate and avoid as you build your company.
- dusklight 17y agoI would totally disagree with this, given that in the first place, it is pretty unlikely for a high school student to get a decent hacking job at a med/large company. More importantly though, working at a med/large company, you would learn a lot of new things -- most of them bad. There's a reason why big companies tend towards bureaucracy and inefficiency. It's not that the people in the company are stupid, but rather that as a company grows larger, the actions that are in the best interest of the individual increasingly diverge from the actions that are in the best interest of the company. While I agree that the soul-crushing, morality-corrupting experience of working at a large company will teach you many things that are essential to an entrepreneur later down the line, I think you would be better served developing some individuality and backbone through college or the yc experience. Both options will give you a chance to experience what it really means to make your own decisions and to sink or swim by them (assuming you are not living at home for college).