My goal is LONG-term career growth and potentially being a founder. Which stage of startup should I join? The typical narrative: join Big Tech first to get it on your resume, “learn best practices”, build network. Then think about startups later. Ok great, I’ve now worked at FAANG and Salesforce (non-SWE, product/business side). I’m not really learning much that’s applicable to startups. I’ve built my own profitable businesses before on the side, just not venture scale. I want to make the jump. Which kind of startup is best for long-term career growth, as a young person? - I don’t care about salary. - I do care about: learning startup skills, building a startup network, actually building something, maybe getting mentorship. TC 180k YoE 2 #startup #equity #faang #salesforce #google
Seed/series A - where a few things have been figured out but a ton to do before things really take off Here’s a good article on what you experience at each stage: https://theskip.substack.com/p/stage-of-company-not-name-of-company Here’s a list of high-growth startups filterable by stage: https://topstartups.io
Work for money or work for your own project/startup. Working for startup is toiling hard for someone else's passion project. Why do it? Unless it's your passion project as well ...
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FAANG is not the ideal place to meet cofounders. Most people are there to chill and maximize TC Try to get into a hot series A or series B startup and meet young ambitious people there. If you can’t get into a hot startup try FAANG for a year or two then bounce