Maybe investors care more about the former Apple thing?
I've been in so many job interviews where the interviewer tells me "Our engineering team has a lot of ex-Google and ex-Facebook people" or tells me about how their founder went to Harvard and the CTO went to MIT.
That's always made me less interested in the company. What, am I supposed to feel less valuable because I don't have any of those credentials, despite what I've done in the industry and my skills being a fit for the position? Plus, a lot of these teams are just building CRUD apps anyway, and many of them turn out worse than those built by teams composed of the little people who went to state schools and use Java.
I've been in so many job interviews where the interviewer tells me "Our engineering team has a lot of ex-Google and ex-Facebook people" or tells me about how their founder went to Harvard and the CTO went to MIT.
That's always made me less interested in the company. What, am I supposed to feel less valuable because I don't have any of those credentials, despite what I've done in the industry and my skills being a fit for the position? Plus, a lot of these teams are just building CRUD apps anyway, and many of them turn out worse than those built by teams composed of the little people who went to state schools and use Java.