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Is there really more risk adjusted reward? If you’re young, smart and unencumbered, you could easily move to the west coast, work for BigTech for a few years and make more money guaranteed than you could as an entrepreneur unless you get really lucky.

Heck, I am none of those - young, unencumbered or willing to move to the west coast and I’m looking to work for one of the big three cloud providers (well two, I would never hitch my horse to GCP) as a consultant since they hire from any major city as long as you are willing to travel (I’m not right now).




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