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I was going to say the same thing. Talking to co-workers in a "major tech company" is different from talking to other startup CEO/CTO's and just general Silicon
by kin 11y ago
I was going to say the same thing. Talking to co-workers in a "major tech company" is different from talking to other startup CEO/CTO's and just general Silicon Valley networking. The latter is quite exhausting.
- nostrademons 11y agoSo don't, then. Most of the big Silicon Valley success stories came from people that were either students/professors at Stanford (HP, Sun, Siri, SGI, Yahoo, Google, SnapChat) or worked for one of the big tech companies of the time (Apple, EBay, Intel, Oracle, Whatsapp, Twitter, Nest, Android, Slack). Occasionally you get a transplant from another region (DropBox, Facebook, AirBnB, Flickr, del.icio.us, YCombinator), but then they've usually found an idea that's somewhat promising and actively started working on it before moving.
- kin 11y agoWhile I might be able to afford this luxury, I think networking in Silicon Valley directly relates to OP's question. What he's missing out on is the interaction with the VC's here, the incubators, the work spaces, the hackathons, etc. Participating in all that and interacting with other self-promotors because you also want to self-promote can be exhausting and what can lead to the 'toxic' referenced in the parent comment.