anonny

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   by anonny 14y ago

   One thing I get a lot of is that working at Google is somehow a mark of complacency, and that as a smart young person I ought to be out founding companies. Chris Dixon has a post entitled "Every Time An Engineer Joins Google, A Startup Dies
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   by anonny 14y ago

   > be a founder, which probably isn't within your financial resources right now unless you have the connections to get immediate funding Could you elaborate on this a little? I realize this is a minor point of your comment, but it's not
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   by anonny 14y ago

   > The bottom line is, people have fallen out of love with Google because Google is no longer different. By "people" do you mean the absolute height of the technological elite? The startup-founding, meetup-attending, venture capital fund
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   by anonny 14y ago

   > I would be somewhere between indifferent and disappointed if one of my friends settled for a job at any of those companies. I think this is emblematic of what I'm encountering: Joining Google is "settling." When I was in college, Goog
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   Ask HN: Why the Google Hate?

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