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That's not an argument, it's a My Chemical Romance song. If your work doesn't mean anything, you change jobs.

You can do everything right at a startup and still fail. In fact, even if you do everything right, you're probably still going to fail. You have many more opportunities to correct in a bigco career.




I agree with everything you said... except useful stuff part.

There is much more stuff being thrown out or made totally useless in a year at big companies than all failed start-ups have ever produced!


and they did not require someone else's money to lose it.


I don't think that's strictly true. A shareholder, somewhere, lost value. VC's are just shareholders that make riskier bets.




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