...the head of the start-up incubator and investment firm, Y Combinator, gave opening remarks, recommending that young people avoid jobs in big tech. “You get to program your life on a totally different scale.... The worst thing that can happen to you is you get a job at Google.” He called those jobs “$100,000 a year welfare” — meaning, he said, that workers can get tethered to the paycheck and avoid taking risks.
Why would you want to work for a YCombinator startup if you're not a founder? You're taking the risk, you get underpaid, and you don't get the big potential payoff.
Why would you want to work for a YCombinator startup if you're not a founder? You're taking the risk, you get underpaid, and you don't get the big potential payoff.