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If you're an employee hoping to make it rich by working on someone else's startup you're doing it wrong. Work for someone else because you need steady pay. Work
by ryanSrich 12y ago
If you're an employee hoping to make it rich by working on someone else's startup you're doing it wrong. Work for someone else because you need steady pay. Work for someone else because you appreciate what they're doing.
If you want to make a lot of money you need to take risks. Start your own startup. Go 4+ years without a salary. The co founders might not be the ones actually building the product but they're the ones taking the risk. They're the ones not sleeping at night. Trust me. It's a far better gig to just get paid as an employee than spend years on a startup that eventually fails. If Silicon Valley has done anything it's give young people the false impression that starting a startup is a way to get rich.
Well...it is. In the same way that playing the lottery is a way to get rich. One is much easier than the other.
- s73v3r 12y agoWhy are we rewarding someone who's "taking a risk" rather than the people who are actually doing the work?
- bhayden 12y agoIt's not like the people doing the work are doing it for free. They're not sacrificing much. The people taking the risks are the ones sacrificing and enabling the creation of something, so they're the ones who gain from it.
- s73v3r 12y agoBut what, exactly, are they enabling? What couldn't the people doing the actual work do without them?