Re:What it's like to bootstrap a business before it can fina...
by o-__-o on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:54PM
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Wow I did both, started young and failed, got employed by fortune 500s, started up again with lots of spare cash.
I haaaate working for anyone else after tasting success, but my FAANG salary and 401k and stock options simply can’t match the 100 cold calls a day startup life
One of the worst parts, though, was that I felt like getting my first job after working on my own company for a while was... much harder than it has ever been for me to get a job. Like getting a job after being unemployed for a long time, which felt like a huge insult after how hard I worked.
I personally think it's actually a much bigger risk to do this when you are young (I mean, if you otherwise have the opportunity, like I did, to work a corporate job that let you max a 401K) than when you are older, once you have maxed that 401K as a younger person.