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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
That depends on what you mean by "having it to drop" . That's less than a median income in San Francisco. If you put 100% of your income into a startup, are you out of touch or do you just have skin in the game? I don't think it's particularly in touch to dismiss someone who works 50 hours a week to make an income and then Works another 50 hours a week on a startup that spends that income
Nobody works 100 hours a week.
Yes they absolutely do
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#93> If Bell Labs’ scientists invented the transistor, the laser, Unix, information theory, etc, then YC’s “economic research scientists” invented OpenAI, Stripe, AirBnB, Instacart, Doordash, Dropbox, Reddit, and many more. Interesting, comparing core scientific research and output by Bell Labs to just techi-ifying existing industries and not really adding much new value (other than OpenAI).
I find it quite distasteful. Founders should just admit that they want to make the next big thing that explodes into huge money, a la "The Social Network". It's sad that they feel like they have to do this self-deception to try and convince themselves they are doing something noble
Re: A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody works 100 hours a week.
I agree it's not very sustainable, at least for your typical person in Western Society, but it's not unheard of either. I've worked hundred hour weeks and also supervised crews of Hispanic Americans that will work 100 hour weeks. On the other end of the spectrum, I've known m&a lawyers that do the same to close deals at the end of the fiscal year. 100 hour week is roughly 14 hour days with no weekend break. 6:00 a.m.…
It is not sustained/sustainable. I worked 100 hour weeks too, but then it took like a month to recover and during that time I could not properly work even 50 hours on my main job.
Agriculture is historically seasonal: you work a lot during some times, but the rest of the time you do completely nothing on the agriculture front. Not a luxury at most modern workplaces.
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#95Ahahaha comparing CRUDs apps to technological breakthroughs like the laser or transistor xD
Re: A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
If anything "the real world" (read: average people) don't care about core scientific research either. Maybe when they or their parents get ill they care about medical research, but that's all. Try to pick any Nobel physics nominees in past 50 years and explain why their work is important to average people.
It's an easy task because many of the prizes are given well after the discovery and so many are for things everyone recognizes. For example, Bohr was recognized in 1975. Some prizes for more recent discoveries: 2014: Blue LED 2009: fiber optics and they blue lcd.
Oops I meant the CCD, not blue lcd.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if the denominator is all Computer Science students who may think of dropping out of school when seeing these success stories. And The days of hacking something together and getting a job are kind of dwindling if not gone. The days of self learning, and showing skill isn't really as prevalent anymore. Sure, it was like that during 90-2000's. But these days, not so much.
If what you said was true, coding bootcamps would require you to have a college degree. They don't require it. And still place people without degrees at all sorts of companies. Maybe you are somewhere that it is required. But in general, it really is not.
You wouldn't need a degree for the boot camp, you are saying a boot camp is a replacement for a degree. That these two options are equal for a company hiring.
Aren't a lot of coding boot-camps going bankrupt and closing, and having various scandals for over-inflating their placement numbers?
Don't get me wrong, I really love the idea of picking up a book, teaching myself, and going and getting a job.
It's just that this is a quickly fading option.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you need investment? If you can build it on your own and there is a real niche with people willing to pay money for what you build then you can make a lot of money as an individual.
I can’t because I need money to survive, and this will not provide that money for months until the thing is written, deployed, and has an established enough paying user base… And good luck me not getting seriously ill or get affected by whatever calamity in meantime!
You should never found a business. If you are already thinking about becoming ill, then it's just not the path for you. A business founder has to be prepared and eager to sacrifice his personal well being for the business.
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#99> If Bell Labs’ scientists invented the transistor, the laser, Unix, information theory, etc, then YC’s “economic research scientists” invented Stripe, AirBnB, Instacart, Doordash, Dropbox, Reddit… This comparison made me chuckle. It seems to highlight how yc is different from an organization focused on scientific research rather than how it is similar.
It's important to learn the history of Jack Welch at GE. His choices echo through most modern society at the moment.
Can you say more about this? Why Welch specifically, vs other important execs over time?
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#100I don't know why everyone assumes "more startups!" is an unambiguously good thing.
This industry is changing the world, but probably not for the better.