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Why should I incur the risk and time investment of founding a startup when I can enjoy comfort and success working at a FANG company? Startups _sound_ great, b
by lochlan 6y ago
Why should I incur the risk and time investment of founding a startup when I can enjoy comfort and success working at a FANG company? Startups _sound_ great, but death marching myself without compensation is a stressful proposition.
Sure, I have a handful of ideas that seem reasonable and dreams of startup success—and maybe I'll explore them in early retirement.
- nineteen999 6y agoWhy should I incur the risk and time investment of founding a startup OR the culture at a FANG company, when I can thankfully avoid both and still be compensated really well and enjoy my work. It's not like there's only two options.
- lochlan 6y agoWhat exactly are you risking (or incurring) with regards to FANG culture? From my perspective it's all upside.
- nineteen999 6y agoIt's not for everyone, just the same as working for startups. I prefer working with a small team, and having less external teams to deal with, and shorter pipelines. We run a service with true five nines availability requirements so wherever we can reduce unnecessary complexity its allows us to focus the complexity in the right places where it is needed.