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Comment by cmdshiftf4

6 years ago

How many countless others have invested years of their lives, in exchange for equity and comparatively low pay, in promising-sounding startups only to see those companies fail?

Should they be retroactively counting the money they could have had if they'd went to a more stable firm and had the same years of pay increases, bonuses, RSUs, etc. as a loss?

This is hollow clickbait, but the author is clearly intelligent enough to know that hence why it's mainly focused on a youtube video which I'm presuming he's doing in the name of trying to build an audience and "clout" for himself with.

This gives me a good idea for a video: How and when to quit.

To be frank I also quit Palantir far earlier than maybe I should have. A story for another day.

Thank you for the feedback though, I do appreciate it.

> How many countless others have invested years of their lives, in exchange for equity and comparatively low pay, in promising-sounding startups only to see those companies fail?

My intuition leads me to believe its more than the cumulation of these "I could have made $N" stories :)