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I imagine most people that get into entrepreneurship do so precisely because they don't want to go work for someone else.
Or they want to get bought out with enough money that they don't have to work for someone else.
If you want to make money, work in big tech. If you have an insatiable itch to build something (product, business), start a company or startup.
Small and medium sized businesses can represent an optimal solution once you factor in the influence you can have at this scale.
If you are truly gifted at what you do with technology, the SMB route is the best bet. The extremes of solo and mega corp will wear you down in their own special ways - doing too much and doing too little.
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Or they want to get bought out with enough money that they don't have to work for someone else.
one of the things that early founders don't understand about acquisition though is that getting bought out in an acquihire usually precisely involves working for somebody else
I imagine most people that get into entrepreneurship do so precisely because they don't want to go work for someone else.
Sometimes entrepreneurs have good intentions and just get fucked over.
I imagine most people that get into entrepreneurship do so precisely because they don't want to go work for someone else.
I worked for a startup in the late 90's founded by 4 college friends that just wanted to build cool stuff. None of them wanted to actually be CEO so they sorta rotated the job between them every few months while they built. Eventually they needed a dedicated person at the helm to handle CEO things so they hired a guy that was a VP at Microsoft at some point. The company was sold off within 6 months and everyone was g…
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Or they want to get bought out with enough money that they don't have to work for someone else.
one of the things that early founders don't understand about acquisition though is that getting bought out in an acquihire usually precisely involves working for somebody else