I'm a hard worker (80h/week for months without burnout easily) and I want to deliver value to humanity. Fix a lot of things that I see missing everywhere, mistakes, problems. I can build product as well as distribution strategy. The easiest way to know you're sustainbly delivering value is getting paid. TC: 175k, yoe 2. This is my first company after gradschool. I love it here, ticks all the boxes except big mandate/problems to solve and TC growth (no stock). What's next for me? I'm currently not under time pressure to work, Mercedes-Benz is a retirement company. And of course, career progression is slow. So assuming I'm optimizing for growth, I've come up with three possible paths for effective longtermist altruism for the next 5 years: - VC funding, quit job, work full time. No real safety net, but time to work on building value, finding customers and building skills. Kinda like Elon Musk's approach, just with addition of VC money to accelerate. Potential captured value is in the 10mil-100mil range, or more if more ambitious with bigger team+funding (I'll choose product and market based on resources available) - Startup school like YC or beondeck.com, similar to above but better acceleration for worse potential value captured - Change to a funded growth stage high velocity startup that'll take maybe 60h/week, and leaves no room for side hustles. All of my impact must be delivered through the startup. Hard to find the fit, and TC bump will take me to about 500k avg over the next five years, at best. Maybe use skills learned to startup later on (but beyond my testosterone years, maybe it's too late...) - Change to fantamulaccddrrsssss or other high TC, work 40h/wk and can do below, just slower but better current TC. Jump ship to keep TC high. This is the Blind way. Might just procrastinate on high value delivered until death though. - Build while working 20h/wk at retirement company like Daimler/Google/Macrosoft. Free safety net, low growth, can still maintain normal life. Might procrastinate on side hustle until death. - Semi retire with investment income in lcol and build full time, bootstrapped instead of VC fucked. Which one should I choose? Any insight whatsoever is much appreciated. I can elaborate on anything unclear. Please mention what you selected and why in comments. #startup #ea #choices #advice #blind
80 hr/week? I’d hate to work with someone like you no offense.
What’s the point making money if you’re gonna work all the time. Also 40+ is too much for your comp
Oh 2 YOE, that makes sense. I admire the ethic but start taking care of yourself now before you do burnout
What does burnout even mean. I wrote my thesis for 4 years. I've been depressed af. Been days where I wake up, and stay in bed watching PBS spacetime until I sleep. I wake up again 4 hours later. I think I developed the tools to not burn out. I think there's really only myself holding me back.
Then you'll be the next Elon! I think maybe burnouts happen when you don't feel rewarded/recognized. Elon gets recognized every second. Also, I am happy you healed from the depression. Shit sucks
Did you know you can increase your tc and not work 80 hours a week?
Yes, that's one of the options. Reasoning for why that's bad - if you're in a situation where your TC (or net revenue if you're a company) can be 10 mil as an individual, is it wise to give that up for 300k TC at a fantamulaccddrrsssss?
You can do an expected value calculation to figure that out. How many startups result in situations where your TC is 10M?
“delivering value to humanity” - gtfo!You’re so money hungry it’s unreal.
Aren't we all bro/sis? Value of our hard earned dollars are burning, houses/rents are all time high, tuition is all time high (if you have kid/s, this sucks), yadiyada..
Yes, and? Not trying to be snarky, as I said, it's the best estimate of value given we have.
Cocaine's a hell of a drug..
Lol exactly my thought
I keep trying to get cocaine but I can't seem to get my hands on it. I can get meth, LSD, but no cocaine or ketamine
Would you seriously try ketamine OP?
You know that if you work twice the time your TC is two times less? :) You’re exchanging your time for money. Working 80hr/week means your time worth less
No offense, but you sound like an idiot.
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