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Three kids, a safe job and an Audi is not ambitious. And it certainly isn't netting you a YC partnership at 25.
by FakeSamAltman 13y ago
Three kids, a safe job and an Audi is not ambitious. And it certainly isn't netting you a YC partnership at 25.
- sliverstorm 13y agoAh, but what if it was three kids, a safe job, two Ferraris, and the ear of Larry Ellison? or how about Climb the ladder, eventually transition to politics, and become a Senator on a technical platform? ruswick's point is that ambition is not the sole province of the startup crowd.
- stephencanon 13y agoFounding yet another tumblr-for-cats and selling ads isn't ambitious either; you can do mundane work at startups just as easily as you can in a big corporation. You can do ambitious work at both of them, too. For kids who don't come from a wealthy family, there's something to be said for building up a minimal safety net early on by doing ambitious things in a relatively stable large firm. It's not the only way, though (obviously).