Google comes out with this new stuff that can easily replace Calendly. Meta comes up with Threads overnight to replace Twitter. Meta did the same with Tiktok via Reels Grammarly is useless now with all openai and llm stuff. Unless you are joining a startup with a very prioritary tech that is hard to copy, your 6 year vested stock options may not mean anything. Either join a big tech, join a exceptionally smart startup, or you make your own. There is no in-between
Big tech if you want a lot of sustainable income Startups if you dont really care about money but impact you make. Im not talking about startups like Stripe. Talking about series A. One in million chance you can cash big time and retire. Or you can retire working for big tech for 10 years
"impact" you are so naive.
Care to explain the naivety airbnb?
Startup with seed to Series D funding is good to join. Pre-seed is too risky. Series E and beyond is too late to join. Big tech is only good if they give tuition reimbursement for you to get a free master’s degree.
Curious. Do you think a MS degree has an impact? I was 75% of the way through a Georgia Tech MS and dropped it to cofound a company. We're doing really well (10M ARR in 2.5 years), and I definitely don't have the time to finish.
What makes Series D special?
This is a dumb, hot take.
Not necessarily. Look for startups like fresh desk, they don't have an exiting product, but customers are sticky and those who joined early made lot of money
Much of my life I would’ve said impact is most important. Now that I’m in my 30s, I say go for the money and reserve impact for your side projects where you have more control and can make a difference. Have been at two pre-seed startups with major potential and sometimes the biggest struggle is the CEO’s inexperience and poor decision making. Like literally was at a company that had a goldmine and fucked the whole business away due to treating customers so horribly that people stopped buying and they went out of business. I was in literal tears like how did you mess this up?
Cornering a market is still hard, building a product is not. Anyone that has a market hegemony should be doubling down on AI and going berserk. Twitter was dumb about it. Threads showed what it can do using existing Insta market.
Join companies that have a market hegemony - build products for adjacencies
1. Reels cannot replace TikTok 2. OpenAI is a startup and smaller than Grammarly. 3. Google and Meta used to be startups too
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I’m chilling at enterprise b2b saas provider getting paid a lot for little work. 🤷♂️
I don’t disagree. Not my problem enterprise companies don’t have a choice 🤣
Once again I have to reiterate as I have done on other posts “Your happiness as an employee has nothing to do with the quality/brand/hype of the product you work on” Happy for Workday