I was going to say that there's career progression towards being a 10x programmer too. But that's a much more debatable topic.
You get more flexibility to take on multiple roles. More pressure driving you forward. Much, much less bureaucracy to worry about. No more 2 month discussions over code that takes 2 weeks to write.
The downside is that you could get tied up putting out fires, being unfocused. And there's little room for deliberate training.
Indeed, all of this are debatable, and the article only specifically mentions "rise up through the ranks", which means management.
Of course, even that's a questionable proposition. It calls out the youth of a Chief Product Officer at Facebook, which may well be cherry-picking/selection-bias.
As I've researched the managers at startups I consider working for, I routinely see on LinkedIn profiles that a high "rank" at a startup turns into a much lower one when an individual moves to a much larger company, though it does tend to go back up once that individual returns to startup work.
You get more flexibility to take on multiple roles. More pressure driving you forward. Much, much less bureaucracy to worry about. No more 2 month discussions over code that takes 2 weeks to write.
The downside is that you could get tied up putting out fires, being unfocused. And there's little room for deliberate training.