Meh. If startups aren't for you, then do something else. There is a lot more to get out of them than striking it rich or "glory". For the most part, if you don'

Meh. If startups aren't for you, then do something else. There is a lot more to get out of them than striking it rich or "glory". For the most part, if you don't truly believe that the product/software/hardware a startup is trying to build should exist, then you probably shouldn't be there in the early days when you're likely to be working longer hours to be successful. Personally, one of the biggest draws for me isn't the glory or the opportunity to get rich, but instead the opportunity to build something I believe needs to exist and the opportunity to create something entirely new in the world from scratch and be responsible for the majority of important design decisions. I've learned far more than I would hacking on someone else's legacy code (unless I had the privilege of working on the legacy code of truly great engineers I respect) or by being told what to build and how to build it (again, unless that person happens to be brilliant at making those types of decisions). Those who work at startups should do so for the same reason that people who work long hours on open-source projects do so; they are makers that are building something they believe should exist.