Fridge is Joining Google+ Team • Hacker News Board

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by nostrademons » Fri, Jul 22, 2011, 5:03 AM UTC

Hisoka wrote: post #69

nostrademons wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The level of skill needed to build a company from scratch and have it bought by Google is also not all that common. Apples-to-apples here: if you're going to compare a startup founder to an employee, you should compare them to someone of equal skill.

Anyone can "build" a company from scratch.... But it takes a lot to build a successful company from scratch, which isn't what Fridge did here. I mean, I know not everyone is a startup founder, but the costs and barriers to being one is pretty low these days... just start a website, say you're doing something special, and you can call yourself a "founder".

That's still missing the "and have it bought by Google" part. I know how low the barrier to entry for founding a company is - hell, I've done it myself - but there's still a fairly high bar to being acquired, or even aqhired.

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by iphoneedbot » Fri, Jul 22, 2011, 8:20 AM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #40

onewland wrote: post #38

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$250k easily? I think that's a level of skill that is not at all common. I'm not saying nobody gets paid that all, but developer compensation needs to be more realistically looked at on this forum. I'd say the majority make less than $100k, and $150k or more puts you in the top 5 percentile.

The level of skill needed to build a company from scratch and have it bought by Google is also not all that common. Apples-to-apples here: if you're going to compare a startup founder to an employee, you should compare them to someone of equal skill.

Though, one can argue that being YC had more to do with it than just "skill". Maybe they are going to be great leaders within Google.. or maybe they'll just be yet another acqHired then leave as soon as possible..

Point is that -- if they are just a normal 'startup' -- they probably would not have been acquired if they didnt carry the YC brand perception with them

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by pge » Fri, Jul 22, 2011, 1:02 PM UTC

puredanger wrote: post #15

Man, I was really disappointed to click this link and find that it was not a news story about William "Refrigerator" Perry from the Chicago Bears joining the Google+ team.

you're not alone:) I thought Google+ had found a new front man...