he mentions some sales position somewhere, so I don't think he's eng

That's what I was thinking too, so I don't think the "start-up will die" rule applies to him if he had joined Google. I personally would love to be recruited by Google when the time comes because even though I'll be Employee number 300,001 - I'll learn a LOT and be able to help the next startup/company I am with.

Majored in Government/Poli Sci. It was a flexible major, by which I mean I ignored it entirely.

So basically you majored in arts and crafts at Harvard (and you're surprised BSing poli sci papers wasn't difficult?), wrote a bunch of blog posts and tweets, have an annoying 'young upstart' linkedin page, but don't know a linked list for a lincoln log, and are going into a non-technical entry level position for a random start-up?

Yup.

> Graduating Harvard Senior. Digital Media Entrepreneur. Builder. Disrupter.

That helps.