- housing in the bay area is substantially more expensive now, so you need to already be pretty qualified in your role to justify your cost
- this partially goes against Paul Buchheit's old point that startups allow you to do work you'd otherwise be unqualified to do
- because startups work on building (rather than maintaining) products, the tech skills that startups want are different from the tech skills engineers in big companies are using
- universities aren't really making up the difference
Options:
- YC makes its own university for engineers/scientists
This goes along Alan Kay's point about not relying on vendors. If there's a particular skillset that YC cos want early engineers to have and people don't have it (at the scale YC collectively wants), it may make sense to teach it.
- housing in the bay area is substantially more expensive now, so you need to already be pretty qualified in your role to justify your cost - this partially goes against Paul Buchheit's old point that startups allow you to do work you'd otherwise be unqualified to do - because startups work on building (rather than maintaining) products, the tech skills that startups want are different from the tech skills engineers in big companies are using - universities aren't really making up the difference
Options: - YC makes its own university for engineers/scientists
This goes along Alan Kay's point about not relying on vendors. If there's a particular skillset that YC cos want early engineers to have and people don't have it (at the scale YC collectively wants), it may make sense to teach it.