Re:Ask HN: If your startup fails, can you be an employee at ...
by DiversityinSV on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @01:31PM
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My last co-founder kinda soured badly on steady corporate world. I plucked him from Yahoo (before Marissa) and did a startup for a couple of years. When we closed shop, he tried to go back to the corporate world (Disney/BigCommerce) and found them unsufferable. He got used to small, do whatever I want to do. He ended up at another startup, a little bigger, but still under 40 people. So, moral of the story is that some people won't go back to big corporate behemoths after doing a startup.
If you are a dev/eng/cs guy you'll land fast anywhere, non-dev startup work (marketing/PR/social/sales/support/fundraising) will require a lot of explaining and time. You'll get there.
If you are a dev/eng/cs guy you'll land fast anywhere, non-dev startup work (marketing/PR/social/sales/support/fundraising) will require a lot of explaining and time. You'll get there.