Comment by garry
6 years ago
Thanks for the note! I appreciate the feedback.
These things are crazy rare. I didn't do a good job of explaining then how weird this experience was. In the moment it felt like any other startup. Peter was great and well known but not outrageously famous the way he is today.
I also didn't do a good job of doing an intro on this idea that tech startups are taking over all of the economy. There are some things that I just take for granted— I guess in abstraction now there are trillions of dollars of market cap in just tech firms, and this fits with my overall view that software is eating every part of GDP. We see this every day, but it's not well explained in my video/post.
I was making a joke about Google eating all of the world's revenue, but it didn't land. Sorry about that.
Really appreciate the feedback here. You're totally right that it's more directly lucrative and lower risk to work at a big tech co. I just still think people should consider making things for themselves though.
> I just still think people should consider making things for themselves though.
I've worked for startups and big companies. In both cases you're making something for someone else. Even then, at least at a "Big Company" you can sometimes choose to work on a product that you personally use.
Yeah, I hope none of the criticism was too harsh. I'm a big fan, we've actually met in person, and I almost got into YC while you were a partner. Oh well :)
Agreed on most of your points here, especially about software eating the world. There's a good post here, just not sure this is it yet!
Just trying to get better. Not too harsh at all. Thanks again.
> I was making a joke about Google eating all of the world's revenue, but it didn't land. Sorry about that.
Honestly, I found it slightly offensive.
Sorry about that. Lots of other companies are going to make money, and that's a good thing.
It's certainly a bad thing for large tech firms to take out increasingly large portions of global profits. It also might be a secular trend without end.