I'm talking about really early stage people... the guys brought on for peanuts and options, pre series A.
- Pre series-A, startups can't really pay market rate, unless they have huge angel investment or the founder is rich and financing the thing himself.
- BigCo jobs probably do encourage the entrepreneurs to do things the same way they did at the BigCo. However, in your example the Ex-Microsoft entrepreneurs are hiring program managers and VPs. Thus, they have enough money to pay these sorts of employees. Which means they got rich at Microsoft or their MS resume point convinced investors to give them money.
- Working in a small startup CAN teach you a lot about what works, but the same thing rarely works twice. Note I'm talking about engineers. All the stuff I learned about server scaling in 1998 wasn't as important in 2008.
- It does get you into the game, but so does being employee number 30 with a comfortable post series-A salary and free backrubs.
- Pre series-A, startups can't really pay market rate, unless they have huge angel investment or the founder is rich and financing the thing himself.
- BigCo jobs probably do encourage the entrepreneurs to do things the same way they did at the BigCo. However, in your example the Ex-Microsoft entrepreneurs are hiring program managers and VPs. Thus, they have enough money to pay these sorts of employees. Which means they got rich at Microsoft or their MS resume point convinced investors to give them money.
- Working in a small startup CAN teach you a lot about what works, but the same thing rarely works twice. Note I'm talking about engineers. All the stuff I learned about server scaling in 1998 wasn't as important in 2008.
- It does get you into the game, but so does being employee number 30 with a comfortable post series-A salary and free backrubs.