If most people followed that advice, they would stay home in their parent's basement and rot away there until they died.
Most people aren't even exposed to a single good idea/opportunity in their lives.
I'm 33, I've been coding since I was 14. It only happened once in my life that someone offered me to co-found a company but they had no funding, no connections and the idea sucked. I didn't join and the project failed.
If I get any semi-decent opportunity at all, I take it because otherwise I will have to wait 10 years for the next mediocre opportunity to come up.
Trying to find opportunities is also not viable. At one point, I reached out to some VCs and attended some events which I knew they would also attend; it almost got to the point of stalking them... Still couldn't even raise $20K from them... All I got was a free cappuccino with one of them. Waste of time.
The only opportunities I ever got and which worked out with moderate success were the ones where everyone was telling me that it was a waste of time... They would have been a waste of time if I was a lucky spoiled brat maybe; but in my world, if the opportunity is even moderately good, someone else with a few million $ in funding is already doing it and Google will send every single user to their platform and won't send a single user to my platform.
I'm 33, I've been coding since I was 14. It only happened once in my life that someone offered me to co-found a company but they had no funding, no connections and the idea sucked. I didn't join and the project failed. If I get any semi-decent opportunity at all, I take it because otherwise I will have to wait 10 years for the next mediocre opportunity to come up.
Trying to find opportunities is also not viable. At one point, I reached out to some VCs and attended some events which I knew they would also attend; it almost got to the point of stalking them... Still couldn't even raise $20K from them... All I got was a free cappuccino with one of them. Waste of time.
The only opportunities I ever got and which worked out with moderate success were the ones where everyone was telling me that it was a waste of time... They would have been a waste of time if I was a lucky spoiled brat maybe; but in my world, if the opportunity is even moderately good, someone else with a few million $ in funding is already doing it and Google will send every single user to their platform and won't send a single user to my platform.