Comment by marta_morena

This article seems like clickbait and bad advice. This is like selling this ridiculous American dream to someone. Oh, come to us, work hard, wash some dishes and you gonna get far! What pile of garbage. Yes, it works for some lucky few, but that's about it.

The truth is that most startups fail and most people in startups that don't fail, worked their asses off and still only get scraps. Comparing today with 2003 is nuts. The times are so different that there isn't even a remote resemblance.

Yes founding a unicorn can make you rich. Doh! Who would have thought...

But also if you worked at Amazon in 2008, saved all the stocks, re-invested excess money in stock, even as an entry level engineer you would be a MULTI MILLIONAIRE ten years later... Its just crazy to give advise to people to prefer insane risk for a chance to get 200 million, over guaranteed few millions in a safe job.

Yes there are people who really can't work at big tech and who want to hack some startup code together. Go for it! Sure. For everyone else, big tech is preferable by a large margin. And there I can work on projects startups could never even dream of doing. The reason for that is that big tech works with economy of scale. What is profitable for Google and Amazon might very well be suicidal for startups.

And to top it all off, the author even says that Peter Thiel wrote him a yearly salary as check. That devalues this article even more. Anyone, yes ANYONE should have taken this offer. This wasn't about risk whatsoever. This was about a 23 year old guy who didn't understand how the world works. And that applies to literally anyone young.