Met a millionaire coder on Call of Duty
Was on a call of duty lobby and this guy claimed to be rich which I called cap then he added me on IG and showed me $100k in cash and the fact that he owns this prank website (prank dial competitor) This guy is 26 years old doesn’t have a computer science degree self caught coder and was basically retired (4.5 million in savings, owned 2 houses) Makes you think is Blind a crabs in a barrel mindset? We all posses the skills to start our own company and with software it isn’t even that expensive to launch your idea. Yet we all choose to work corporate jobs that breed mental illness from all the random layoffs and backstabbing because it’s the “safe path?” Are we kidding ourselves? I just want to launch a company or start a YouTube channel now as a side hustle. TC 155k NW 499k 5.5 yoe
SWE is one of the rare fields where the compensation usually exceeds the risk-reward ratio of starting your own business.
This is what keeps you trapped in pleb mindset. “SWE is one of the rare fields where slavery is worth it.”
This mindset is the true indoctrination.
Not necessarily, there's actual data that supports the rate of startup success through each of the funding stages
Time for you to meet some non-millionaire coders on call of duty
How did you get that NW with that comp in only 5 years? Assuming you started at a lower TC and scaled up to that comp makes it even more impressed.
Lived in my mom’s basement for 4 years
That’ll do it.
We all have the technical skill but we need to learn the other side of a company. Marketing, sales, user research, find a problem worth solving, etc. Coding is just one part, finding the right thing to build is another beast
The thing is there is always services available to do marketing for you, build product for you, do call leads for you. I always felt what most people lack, including me is the ability to believe, wisdom or some kind of wisdom to believe the idea will bear fruit. I have met tons of folks who have ideas but none of them pursue it. I suffer from the same issue. It's like, I have this idea but how do I figure out early on if it's worth building it. There will be plenty of naysayers to call the idea off and be shit, but there is something that people who go through an idea and already are well aware it will be Succesful. Like the COD guy the OP said, why did he built a prank dial website and not a clone/competitor of some prank website that sends a chocolate dildo.
I’m not a SWE but I started in tech a year ago. For the 2 years before I got into my current company I started my own business right when the lockdowns happened. Grew to about 5 employees with a pretty decent fan following. I’m telling you rn running your own business is extremely rewarding and you learn a lot but it’s not for everyone….. the stress is something not everyone can handle. Every second of your day you’ll always be worrying about your company and how you’ll grow, scale manufacturing fulfill orders, post customer support, social media, ect….. it’s never ending. When I get more experience & grow my network I’ll eventually go back and launch a new business with more capital to back my ideas because thats where I’ll find the most enjoyment, but it’s not for everyone.
What's your marketing strategy, do you hire sales? This is the part I struggle the most
I’m happy someone asked that. I was the sole decision maker when it comes to our initial GTM and marketing strategy. My business product from the beginning was solely targeting a super niche community with already established social media communities on Reddit, IG, and Facebook. Very organic sales pipeline. Hindsight a ok idea for starting a small business not a great idea for growing if you want a large TAM. I realized that if I wanted scale my business and any potential future company I run, I need to have experience selling to C suite and enterprise customers. That’s the only way I can grow a company to a size I want. So I actually joined snowflake’s sales org to get that sales experience selling to c level decision makers. Will help immensely when I’m pitching my businesses in the future, or hiring a sales team to scale the biz.
It's the herd mindset.
lol
I call cap🧢. Tell him to show you his W2 😏
He is that well off and spends his time bragging about how much money he has to nerds on COD lobby? He is definitely miserable on the inside
True. But doesn’t discount the fact that we all might be selling ourselves short.
Miserable on the inside is temporary. He maybe retarded but as long as he is positive he can overcome setbacks